— Love, Lurches, and a Most Unusual Dinner Party
Auditions will be held May 26
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (April 27, 2026) — Dust off the cobwebs and set an extra place at the table… The Annisquam Village Players will this summer present The Addams Family, a wickedly funny musical comedy where romance blooms in the unlikeliest of crypts. Auditions for numerous roles of all ages will be held at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, at the Annisquam Village Hall, 36 Leonard St. Auditions for children ages 6-12 years will start at 5:30 p.m.
Teenage and adult participants will be asked to sing a musical selection from the show and read a few selected lines from the script. Those selections and a complete list of available roles can be found on the AVP website,annisquamvillageplayers.com. The children’s audition will just consist of singing the classic song, “Happy Birthday” and will not require any reading. Callbacks will be held May 27.
Based on the New Yorkermagazine, single-panel comic series by Charles Addams, the show takes place in the Addams’ crumbling old Central Park mansion, alive with dark shadows and generations of dearly departed ancestors who simply won’t depart. When teenage daughter, Wednesday, invites her new boyfriend and his annoyingly “normal” parents to dinner, what could possibly go wrong?
Quite a bit.
As the boyfriend’s tidy, conventional family steps into the Addams’ gloriously morbid world, tensions rise faster than a ghost through the ceiling. Personality clashes spark chaos, dinner threatens disaster, and the evening takes a shocking turn when it becomes known that the young couple are engaged to be married.
Cue the mayhem.
Between the devotedly macabre and tango-dancing Morticia and Gomez Addams – along with their intense teenage children, an eccentric Uncle Fester, a 102-year-old grandmother (who may have outlived reason itself) and a hulking, chiseled butler called Lurch who speaks only in heartfelt grunts and groans – the stage is set for comic catastrophe. But in a good way!
And yet—through zombie ancestors, slapstick torture, and morbid humor — love finds a way. By show’s end, both families discover that “normal” is relative… and that love conquers even the most haunted hearts.
Performances will run Aug. 4-9 at the Annisquam Village Hall. Tickets go on sale in July. For more information, visit online at AnnisquamVillagePlayers.com. It’s going to be a great show!
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