The Addams Family – The Musical Comedy At Nottingham Theatre Royal Review

The Addams Family – the musical comedy, currently running at Nottingham Theatre Royal, is a brand new tale of everyone’s favourite ghoulish, Addams family, from New York.

Filled with fantastically catchy songs and plenty of exciting dance routines, the audience was mesmerised from the minute the show commenced.

The show’s song highlights include When You’re An Addams (full company), Wednesday’s Growing Up (Gomez), One Normal Night (full company), Pulled (Wednesday), Just Around The Corner (Morticia and Ancestors), The Moon and Me (Fester and the Moon Beauties), Happy Sad (Gomez), Crazier Than Lucas, Mal and Alice), Full Disclosure (Full Company), Waiting (Ancestors), Not Today (Gomez) and Move Toward the Darkness (Full Company).

The whole ensemble are splendid throughout particularly the hard working ghostly ancestor cast members. Cameron Blakely (Gomez) and Joanne Clifton (Morticia) make a charming caliginous pair who always tell each other everything – right?

Blakely, with his Spanish accent, retains the comic vibe of his character throughout with his excellent sensuality. His relationship with Morticia, love of his life and mother of his two children, is one of the many delights of this show especially as Gomez realises that their daughter Wednesday has grown up and no longer is the little girl she once was. Both Blakely and Clifton have great voices and attractive personalities. There are a number of laugh out loud moments in this family show!

Scott Paige is super comical and a romantic oddball Uncle Fester. We thoroughly enjoyed loved his Moon Song and his crazy plans to travel to the moon and declare his undying love. His character also doubles as a bit of a narrator which allows the audience to really connect with him as Fester.

Kingsley Morton as Wednesday is at the centre of the story. She portrays the feisty character fantastically well and has powerful vocals as well as great energy on stage.

Her stage brother Pugsley (Grant McIntyre) is very sentimental in a slightly depraved way. He cares deeply about his sister and is clearly upset at the thought of her leaving and having no one to torture him! McIntyre does strange and weird exceptionally well.

Dickon Gough makes a brilliant Lurch and created quite a few laughs in the audience. Grandma Addams is played with gusto by Valda Aviks and portrays the character faultlessly.

The Beineke’s created more chaos when they arrive for a dinner party. Sean Kingsley (Mal Beineke), Karla Lane (Alice Beineke) and Ahmed Hamad (Lucas Beineke) are what society considers “normal” but, once they revel their true colours, find that they too might seem imperfect to the rest of the world!

Big shout out to the ghostly ancestors, the dancing was superb, as well as the costumes and the set design which was second to none, the night was a complete and utter success! Matthew White has created a master piece with this production!

Rating: 5/5 from me.

On until Saturday 13 November 2021.

Tickets are available from here.