ADDAMS FAMILY: MUSICAL PROMISES HILARIOUS FUN IN SU-PAUL ROOS COLLAB

ANKE MARITZ & EMMA OLIVIER

The beloved, well-known, and eerie Addams family is coming alive on stage at the Adam Small theatre. This production, a collaboration between the Stellenbosch University (SU) Drama Department and Paul Roos Gymnasium, invites audiences to a quality experience filled with laughter and spooky fun. This musical brings the familiar characters from the 20th century back, but this time the story follows a grown-up Wednesday Addams and this time she is in love. However, when it is time for her strange family to meet her Beau’s parents, secrets are kept and chaos ensues. “Long story short, there’s a lot of lies told; a lot of hiding information that shouldn’t be hidden — especially from the mother [Morticia Addams],” says Mateo Komlosy, first-year in BA (Drama and Theatre Studies), playing the role of the zombie butler, Lurch. All the participating members of this production have put in sweat, tears, and many hours of hard work for more than two months. Since Komlosy only joined the Addams Family crew recently, he mentions that he had to face some challenges during rehearsals, but that there were many highlights that formed part of his journey. Komlosy explained that he had to get used to the intensive dancing (choreographed by Wiaan Laing) that the musical demands, but that he soon grew to enjoy it, as well as learning