Producers have announced
they'll turn the Addams Family into a musical. While some might feel this is a
Hair-brained idea, that it will make a
Miserables show, and that any commercial version of the Charles Addams drawings is only a
Phantom of the great cartoonist's work, I was happier than a bag of
Cats to hear about this. I even made my special
Funny Face, the one I make when I get really good news. Too bad this one won't come out until 2009 or so.
Nope, no need to slap me. I'll just go calm myself. Mommy needs a little sleep.
Okay, back. I'm thrilled about this, because I love a good musical, and I bet Addams Family will lend itself better to the musical format than so many of the stories I hear about, like, "We're going to make a musical out of Sophie's Choice." The macabre always makes for a good song-and-dance number: the Buffy musical, anyone? By the way, in case you have a love of Addams Family things, the movies are not so good for little kids (or adults, despite the fact that I heart Raul Julia) but the board game rocks. We play it constantly.
