Creepy, Spooky, and Altogether Ooky

[JWBear]

Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth are staring in a Broadway Musical production of the Addams Family. (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/addams-family-200912)

[Gn2Dlnd]

Wow!

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, how am I going to afford a trip to NYC?

[mousepod]

I would have gagged at yet another cross-media revival, but the casting is spectacular. Count me in.

[Capt Jack]

Yeah, how am I going to afford a trip to NYC?

totally my first thought as I was pricing out orch level tickets.

[Gemini Cricket]

I had heard this was coming up. I love it. Jackie Hoffman is hysterical. Love her.
:)

[Strangler Lewis]

Hmmm. I think the producers would do well to charge people ten dollars to look at the publicity photo and imagine the possibilities and then leave it at that. But I'm willing to be surprised.

[Moonliner]

Oh.

I thought this was a "Happy Birthday Kevy" thread.

My bad. Please carry on.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Chicago Sun Times article (http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/stage/1883010,addams-family-111509.article)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Chicago Tribune (http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2009/11/addams-family-open-in-chicago-oriental-theatre-starring-nathan-lane.html)

[flippyshark]

I don't want to be perceived as hatin,' but nothing about Nathan Lane says Gomez Addams to me.

[katiesue]

I gotta agree with Flippy.

[Morrigoon]

Apparently he's more like the original comic strip Addams.

[innerSpaceman]

Since when?


(Ok, I'm not an expert on the comic strip ... but I'm quasi-familiar with it, and Nathan Lane ain't anything like any Gomez I've ever read, seen, heard or smelled.)





That's not to say he couldn't be fantastic in the role.


I've long since learned to ignore the "oh he's so wrong for that" complaints. Wrong half the time.





(But only half the time.)

[Morrigoon]

Just going off an article I read

[Deebs]

I think Nathan Lane can easily look as wild-eyed as this:
http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo114/TheRedFather/The%20Best/gomez.jpg
But Lane is not as sexy as Raul Julia, certainly.
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x183/malfoyevka/Addams-Slytherin%20family/afgomez3.jpg
I thought RJ's Gomez was madcap enough, and waaaay sexier than John Astin. But I love Nathan Lane so much.

[JWBear]

The real question is can Lane look like this?

http://www.andertoons.com/img/cartoon-blog/Gomez1.jpg

[JWBear]

For anyone here who isn't familiar with the original Charles Addams cartoons, here's the original Addams Family:

http://daddycatchersrealm.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/addamsfamilysketch460.jpg

[Alex]

And here's America's original Adams family:

http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/john_adams.jpg?w=343&h=400http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/images/people/nyhs.jqa.sm.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/J_S_Copley_-_Samuel_Adams.jpg/225px-J_S_Copley_-_Samuel_Adams.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Charles_Francis_Adams.jpg/160px-Charles_Francis_Adams.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Abigail_Adams.jpg/250px-Abigail_Adams.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Henry_Adams.jpg

[JWBear]

Yes, but they only had one "d" in their name. <sniff>

[lashbear]

The real question is can Lane look like this?

http://www.andertoons.com/img/cartoon-blog/Gomez1.jpg

Paging Peter Lorre....

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I don't think Peter Lorre can come to the white courtesy phone anymore.

[flippyshark]

My favorite ever Addams panel (and maybe the most famous) - I often find myself in this very situation.

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6232/cartoonfester.jpg (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/cartoonfester.jpg/)

[JWBear]

This is one of my favorites (and one of the classic cartoons that was recreated for the first movie).

http://americanart.si.edu/eyelevel/images/chast_boilingoil.jpg

[Gn2Dlnd]

^ What I love about the Addamses, is that they probably aren't dumping hot (cider? buttered rum?) on the carolers to be malicious, it's just something that they, themselves, would enjoy.

[lashbear]

dumping hot (cider? buttered rum?)
Candle Wax?
it's just something that they, themselves, would enjoy.
Don't we all?

[JWBear]

I always thought it was boiling oil.