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Oh, snap. Addams Family short-changes its stars

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Chicago Theatre Review Examiner

Adam Riegler (from left), Jackie Hoffman, Krysta Rodriguez, Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Zachary James, and Kevin Chamberlin. Bottonm: Neuwirth and Lane. 

Fair to snappy score, piffling to predictable story and characters of cartoon depth. That about sums up The Addams Family, the much-anticipated new musical based on the mordantly brilliant cartoons of Charles Addams. And oh yes, the multi-million dollar Broadway-bound tuner also has two of the biggest stars known to the biz of show. Alas, the white-hot, mega-watt talents of  Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth are barely allowed to glow in Broadway in Chicago's ooky-spooky  version of You Can't Take it With You.

To read about the full extent of our frustration with the season's most hyped show, click here to get to Scotty Zacher's Chicago Theatre Blog.   

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Catey Sullivan has been writing about Chicago theater for more than 20 years. You can find her work in Chicago and Midwest Living magazines, Pioneer Press newspapers, and the Windy City Times. Catey spent a decade on the Jeff Committee. One day, she may try to write a book about that.

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