Glenbard West Theatre goes creepy and kooky with ‘The Addams Family’ musical
Glenbard West Theatre will present its fall musical, “The Addams Family,” based on the cartoons by Charles Addams, on Oct. 31 through Nov. 2. The musical’s book is by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa.
Wednesday Addams, the princess of darkness, has fallen in love with sweet Lucas from the ordinary Beineke family, and she has invited his family over to have dinner at the Addams Family home. In one seemingly normal night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams Family must finally face the most horrible, disgusting, and dark thing they’ve been avoiding for generations: change.
“The Addams Family” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 to Saturday, Nov. 2, in the auditorium at Glenbard West High School, 670 Crescent Blvd. in Glen Ellyn. Tickets are $14. Purchase tickets at search.seatyourself.biz/webstore/accounts/glenbardwest/buy-tix
The cast includes: Bella DiCosola, Cathlea Ben, Cole Lisook, Paige Brondyke, Marley Juridico, Grant DeKuiper, Alena Plassman, Ian Rondeau, Daniel Cernich, Josie Ehrhart, Henrikas Tatarunas, Elijas Zimmerman, Sophia Savarese, Rohail Khan, Dasani Acklin, Parker Alholm, Noah Brooks, Camille Buttimer, William Casey, Grace Cernich, Irie Condon, Maggie Crum, Siena Flosi, Ty Gambrel, Sam Kroening, Bridget Mitra, Julia Morgan, Hannah Roberts, Maggie Sampson, Gio Scarpelli, Lindsay Seifert, Alex Sorensen, Suditi Vinay, Addie Williams, Lucie Williams, and Wesley Zagortz.
The technical crew includes: Owen Rees, Spencer Watson, Kristen Vogel, Avery Elliott, Allison Penley, Parks Lamkey, Ash Callanta, Stella Garland, Olivia Powell, Finn Saldeen, Melissa Rodriguez, Amina Ajmeri, Karen Esparza, Lillyanna Ngo, Viki Hrdlicka, Addison Piggott, Maggie Prisco, Arissa Akhtar, Liam Allen, Dann Amparo, Sergio Arredondo, Jackson Bjerning, Keira Boynton, Irie Condon, Griffin Coyle, Ray Debek, Thanh Dinh, Colin Dougherty, Brooke Esqiuel, Kayle Felcan, Giselle Figueroa, Kimberly Goiz, Lucas Jennings, Laney Johnson, Sophia Kennedy, Lauren Koons, Remy Lopez, Maya Maas, Martin Millar, Daria Philizaire, Maddie Roberts, Sofia Sorensen, Sam DiciurcioMorgan, and Oakley Wigle.
The business crew includes: Charlotte Henderson, Griffith Albrecht, Sebastian Reynaga, Angela Jaeger, Lily Marsh, Martin Millar, and Ben Bultman.
The pit orchestra includes: Nolan Beery, Mollie Blew, Leah Chapski, Emma Eltzroth, Bennett Garippo, Stella Garland, Gracie Koehler, Clark Koons, Caleb Miller, Sergio Morales Reynoso, Enna Murgic, Rizwan Panjwani, Elijah Plassman, Owen Rees, Annalise Ricci, Leila Salvidas, Christopher Tran, Hailey Weaver, Ethan Xie, and faculty pianist Catherine Hlavacek.
Student leaders include student director and stage manager Chase Qualio, student technical directors Angelo Guerrero and Evelyn Abeln and student business director Aiza Nouman, student set designer Allison Penley, student assistant choreographer Welsey Zagortz.
The director is Michael Fox with assistant director Jolaine Orlin, co-technical directors Bill Schumacher and Rob Matz, and assistant technical director is Karen Winter. The business director is Jacob Kelleher; music director, Jon Walsh; vocal director, Andy Jeffrey; choreographer, Emma Hajny; and costume designer, Susan Hajny.