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Front row, from left: Bryn Elizabeth Martin (Wednesday), Christine Healy (Morticia), James Giacchi (Pugsley). Back; Adam Leidemer (Gomez), Wladimir Petruniw (Lurch), Shaun McCoy (Uncle Fester), Bonnie Theriault (Grandma). Photo by Lindsay Lehmann.



PUTNAM — Fall approaches. The Theatre of Northeastern Connecticut at the Bradley Playhouse has a real treat for you as a truly quirky family invades northeastern Connecticut. The Addams Family will arrive in Putnam on Oct. 6 and you don’t want to miss a chance to share in their kooky, upside-down world.  The show runs for three weekends.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 21 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 8, 15, and 22. Tickets are $27 for adults and $24 for seniors, students, veterans and first responders. All seats are reserved. Reservations may be made with a major credit card online at www.thebradleyplayhouse.org or by calling 860-928-7887. Tickets may be purchased at the theater box office, either before the performance, or at the door if available.
Kathleen Atwood and Greg Brock direct the TNECT production of The Addams Family, with Diane Pollard as musical director and Kat MacInnes as choreographer. Adam Leidemer appears as Gomez and Christine Healy plays Morticia. The rest of the Addams family includes Byrn Elizabeth Martin as Wednesday, James Giacchi as Pugsley, and Bonnie Theriault as Grandma. Uncle Fester is played by Shaun McCoy and Wladimir Petruniw is Lurch. The Beineke family is portrayed by Galen Donavan as Lucas, Jim Archambault as Mal, and Chelsea Daniels as Alice. They are joined by a large ensemble of Addams Ancestors who love to be in the thick of things.
The Addams Family is a musical comedy based on the characters created by Charles Addams. It is drawn from Addams’ cartoons, rather than the television series or films. Book is by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Music and lyrics are by Andrew Lippa with orchestrations by Larry Hochman. The play opened on Broadway in April, 2010 and starred Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia.
In the world of the Addams family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy…as it has been for generations. This unusual family still must deal with the same challenges as any other family, including the greatest one of all – the kids are growing up! Gomez must face every father’s nightmare. Wednesday, the ultimate princess of darkness, is older, has fallen in love, and is, unbeknownst to her family, engaged. Her fiancé, Lucas, is normal, respectable and from OHIO!
Wednesday arranges for Lucas and his parents to come for dinner so the families can meet. She swears her father to secrecy about the engagement. Gomez has never kept anything from Morticia, and of course nothing can go wrong there. In this one eventful night, everything will be disclosed, and relationships tested.

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