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Auditions for musical comedy “The Addams Family”

Burien Actors Theatre (BAT) announces auditions for the musical comedy “The Addams Family,” with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, to be preformed in October.

The show received a Tony nomination for Best Original Score, and calls for 20 actors of any ethnicity to play characters ranging in age from 12 to 102. Characters can be any ethnicity so actors of all ethnicities are invited to audition. Actors don’t need to be the ages listed but must be able to convincingly portray them. While the preference is for actors age 18 and older, roles such as that of Pugsley may be an exception.

SYNOPSIS: Based on the bizarre and beloved characters created by Charles Addams in his single-panel gag cartoons, which depict a ghoulish American family with an affinity for all things macabre. Numerous film and television adaptations of Addams’ cartoons exist, but the musical, which is the first stage show based on the characters, draws from the cartoons rather than the television and film characters. The original story finds the famously creepy and kooky Addams Family put to the test when outsiders come to dinner. Wednesday Addams has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family, a family you would find right at home at PTA meetings and local sports clubs. When she tells her father, Gomez, about her love and impending nuptials, she asks him to keep it from her mother, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

Performances are at BAT in Burien from Oct. 2 through Nov. 1, 2015 on the weekends.  Rehearsals begin in mid-August.

The stage director is Mok Moser and the music director is Daryl Spadaccini.

$100 stipend provided.

Auditions are Monday, June 15 and Wednesday, June 17 from 7 to 10 p.m. Callbacks to take place shortly after auditions at time(s) TBD.