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Salinas, PR
A review of The "Addams Family" musical
by John Lahr
The New Yorker, April 19, 2010
[excerpts] The musical theatre has decided to pit the transgressive power of Charles Addams's mischief against the bromidic power of Broadway. The result: Addams's poisoned brew turned into Kool-Aid. Except for an occasional blip of wit, fifteen minutes into this palaver the audience can feel the show flatlining. At the finale - in a perfect piece of Broadway balderdash - the cast sings about moving towards darkness, something that the show resolutely refuses to do: Move toward darkness
Don't avoid despair
Only at our weakest
Can we learn what's there
J.Galligan
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