Christian Family Theater opens kooky, spooky ‘Addams Family’ musical

From left are Hunter Landreth (Gomez), Olivia Kelly (Wednesday), Benjamin Brown (Uncle Fester), Gabrielle Stoll (Morticia), Harrison Stoll (Lurch), Joel Whitesell (Pugsley) and Hannah Riddle (Grandmama). From left are Hunter Landreth (Gomez), Olivia Kelly (Wednesday), Benjamin Brown (Uncle Fester), Gabrielle Stoll (Morticia), Harrison Stoll (Lurch), Joel Whitesell (Pugsley) and Hannah Riddle (Grandmama).

By Staff Report October 19, 2017 2 min read

If you go

› What: “The Addams Family”› Where: Brainerd United Methodist Church, 3514 Brainerd Road› When: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 20-21; 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22› Admission: $12 in advance online, $15 at door, $10 groups of 15 or more› For more information: cftchattanooga.com

Twenty-one youth ranging in age from 8 to 18 will present “The Addams Family” in three performances this weekend at Brainerd United Methodist Church.

Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch, Cousin Itt and all the weirdly comical characters of Charles Addams’ comic strip are in this musical presented by the Youth Theater of Christian Family Theater. The show is directed by Dale Dye, assisted by Karen Stoll. Christi Barr is the choreographer and Judy Reich is musical director.

As the musical opens, Gomez Addams is living every father’s nightmare: daughter Wednesday has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart, young man from a normal, respectable family. A man her parents haven’t met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother, Morticia.

However, Morticia will learn about those prospective in-laws soon enough when a dinner party is held for the future groom and his family to meet the parents.