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MONMOUTH — The Monmouth Community Players welcome you to experience the “intoxicating smell of the graveyard” as you join them for their performance of Broadway’s multi award-winning, upbeat musical-comedy “The Addams Family.” At the helm of this production are director Josie French and music director Josh Caron. Rounding out the team are Phoebe Gouette, choreographer; Leo Caron, lighting designer and operator; Kyla Mahan, sound operator and Danny Gay, producer.
Featuring a family who live in an upside-down world where pain is joy, sad is happy and death and suffering are dreams to aspire to, the Addams family brings the deliriously delightful world of Gomez (Chris L’Hommedieu), Morticia (Karen Lipovsky), Uncle Fester (Paul Menezes), Grandma (Jackie McDonald), Wednesday (Megan Record), Pugsley (Shawn Jiminez) and Lurch (Zach Hodge) to spooky and spectacular life.
The story is every father’s nightmare — Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. If that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before — keep a secret from his beloved wife Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend, Lucas Beineke (Lou Ford), and his parents, Mal (Henry Quintal) and Alice (Colleen Mahan); comedic chaos ensues.
The multi-talented cast of Addams family members, Beinekes and ancestors have come together from all over central and southern Maine, including Chris L’Hommedieu, Debby Manseur and Molly Gouette of Auburn; Paul Menezes and Nancy Kenneally of Lewiston; Karen Lipovsky, Danny Gay and Megan Record of Monmouth; Shawn Jimenez, Emma Sutherburg, Taylor Sutherburg and Jeff Fairfield of Gardiner; Jackie McDonald of Mechanic Falls; Zach Hodge of Manchester; Lucas Ford and Carly Mershon of Brunswick; Henry Quintal and Zoe Leblanc of Augusta; Colleen Mahan, Josh Allard, Dan Allard and Erin Morrison of Greene; Kathryn Ross of Chelsea; Samantha Melquistand Mary Melquist of Bath; Andy Tolman of Readfield; Cassidy Shink and Jim Wright of Fayette; Emily Carlton of Fairfield; Alyssa Siggins of Bowdoin; Ginger Smith of Winthrop; Reese Madarasz of Topsham; and Emily Kalafarski of Hallowell. The Addams Family will play at the historic Cumston Hall in Monmouth April 17 through 26. Performances will be Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. There will be two performances starring the understudy cast — April 18, 2 p.m., and April 25, 7:30 p.m. Presented through special arrangement by Theatrical Rights Worldwide.
