The Addams Family-- a musical

Hi Steve,

Last night, Pete took me to see the Addams Family Musical.  I know, I know, it's kinda lame that they are doing that kind of crap, but Pete says it's because plays USED TO be written and performed for sophisticated New York audiences...but nowadays they need more money than that, so they try to appeal to the general public audience, so they do little ditties like this to keep it popular as it moves around the country.

I didn't really expect it to be very good, I was more of a Munsters fan myself...but surprisingly, it was pretty cool!  Gomez and Morticia were really funny, at one point Gomez (who typically has a Latino accent), started talking with a Pittsburgh accent and said, "when your father was told that I wanted to marry you, my sweet, he said, "OH MAH GAWD go tell yinz's MAHM..." and everybody in the audience laughed and laughed and laughed....even the two actors even started laughing, it was so funny, he nailed it perfectly.  Then his next line was (in a Latino accent again), "I didn't understand a word he said." And everybody laughed again.

There was a hilarious part, where Uncle Fester confessed his love for the moon, and the scene turned dark, so the moon was huge, and he had these female ghosts surrounding him in old fashioned bathing suits, and he took off his cape to reveal one of those male old fashioned striped bathing suits---and I thought, "Hmm, his legs look funny..." and suddenly, he lifted OFF THE GROUND, and flew through the air, his legs going every which way, (they were fake), and he was singing with a ukelele about how he loved the moon, then the girls left the stage and came back wearing glow-in-the-dark lit up STARS around their heads, it was really fun!!

That was pretty amazing, actually, to see how they pulled it off.  People wearing black suits were underneath him, pulling him up on a lift of some kind, I couldn't really see it but it was a very clever way of doing it.  He made the funniest faces when his legs would do the "splits," and moved all around unusually, which is what made it really funny.  Uncle Fester was the narrator during the whole thing, filling in some gaps and whatnot here and there.  He even had the light bulb that lit up in his mouth!

The premise of the whole play is that the daughter, Wednesday, is old enough to get married, and a "normal" boy and his normal parents come to their house to meet each the Addams family for the first time, over dinner.  Gomez doesn't tell Morticia about their wedding plans, but she knows he's holding something back from her, and Wednesday's brother Pugsly tries to get her to drink a potion that makes her flip out crazy so that boy won't marry her, but the normal boy's mother drinks it instead, and hilarity ensues.  In the end, it all works out and everybody lives happily ever after.  Even Lurch was funny.  He mumbled gibberish throughout most of the play, but towards the end, he suddenly bursts out in a baritone solo, that makes everybody on the stage go wide-eyed with shock.

I highly recommend it if you ever get the chance to see it.  I think Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwerth were the stars of it on Broadway, but then I think Brooke Shields was also playing Morticia at one point, I'm not sure.  These were not famous actors, but they did a very awesome job of it, and we had a really fun time.

At one point, the normal father gets up from their guest room bed, arguing with the crazy mother who drank the potion, and he turns around to reveal this HUGE black spider on his back----you could hear everybody in the audience gasp and "ewww" and the normal mother says, "MEL! OH MY GOSH!" and he turns around yelling, "WHAT NOW?" And she crinkles up her nose and says, "Nevermind." Then he walks out of the room, with the spider still on his back, and she giggles hysterically.

Well anyway, that is how we spent our evening.  When it was over, Pete asked if I wanted a souvenir, but I always say no....who wants to pay $30 bucks for a t-shirt that has 2 words on it?!  But he bought me one anyway, it says, "Define Normal."  I like it...but I still say he paid way too much.  I could print out those words, put them on an iron-on transfer, buy a $3.99 t-shirt at the craft store, and iron the damned thing on for less than $5 bucks.  Sheesh.

Sooooo in other news.....Pete never listens to me, did I mention that?  He has been hacking and coughing, and taking sinus medicine all week---so I kept telling him, "DON'T KISS ME, I don't want to get sick..." (sound familiar? You said the same thing to ME the last time I met you in person).....but, he just ignores me, and now MY throat feels a little scratchy today dammit-to-hell.  He is going to see the new Batman movie tonight with Nathan, yay.  And today, Nate's stupid bad influence friend Tom is coming over at 1:00, so I do not intend to be here.  I guess I'll go shopping, or just putz around awhile.  All I know is, I don't like Tom, and Nate gets on my last nerve.  They are very much like Beavis and Butthead, and frankly the two of them annoy me to death.

So I guess my dear mother will be the babysitter today.  She's been getting on my nerves lately too.  I asked her not to give Nate any cigarettes, because his doctors want him to stop smoking.  She got all pissy about it, "how old is he again," and "he has a right to do whatever he wants to do," and stuff like that.  She gets all bent out of shape when it comes to the subject of quitting smoking.  She says it's the last thing she still HAS in her life that is her OWN, and she won't allow anybody to take it from her.  That is such skewed logic, I can't even address it with a remark in return.  I just tell her, "Ok, have fun killing yourself, but I'll be shipping your sick ass to England so my sister Cathy can watch you die, cause you're not gonna do that shit to ME."

GRRRRRR.

Pete bugs me, (he's so NOISY in the mornings, it drives me bonkers. I set my alarm but it never goes off because HE wakes me up every damned day).  He can't just blow his nose like a normal human being, he sounds like an elephant on steroids.  It's ridiculous.  Or when he sneezes, he doesn't just simply say "choo" like most people, he has to yell at the top of his lungs, AAAAAHHHHHH CHOOOO!!!  And it scares the shit out of everybody around him.  Dumbass.  Then he insists on kissing me when he's got a sore throat.  And he wonders why he gets on my damned nerves so much??

I really think maybe I should have stayed single.  I think this marriage stuff is for the birds.

Well, I'm outta here.  Gotta hit the road and get away from these people.

Have a good Hump Day my friend.  Love you lots. xoxo

Love, Rebecca  

ps. The kids in the play get to have their wedding, and Fester puts a rocket on his back to fly to the moon---and when he "lands" there, the moon suddenly has a huge Fester grin on its face. Very cute!!