Aria
Entertainment and Music & Lyrics Limited are
delighted to announce the full cast for the UK and Ireland tour of the musical
comedy, The Addams Family.
Cameron Blakely will be joining the family in
the role of Gomez Addams.
Cameron’s previous theatre credits include the role
of Thenardier in Les Misérables, a role
he played for two years in London’s West End. Cameron was also part of the 25th
Anniversary at the O2, where he played Bamatabois. Other credits include Smee in Stiles and Drewe’s Peter Pan at the Adelphi Theatre and
Fagin in Oliver! at The Watermill
Theatre. He has also appeared in many productions at Regent’s Park Open Air
Theatre, including A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The
Taming of the Shrew.
Also joining
the family is Valda Aviks in the role of Grandma Addams. Her previous theatre credits include Mrs Meeker in Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre/Menier
Chocolate Factory), Barushka in Once (Dublin/
Phoenix Theatre) and Granny in Into the
Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
Charlotte Page will play Alice Beineke. Her previous theatre
credits include the role of Christine in Phantom
of the Opera (West End), A Little Night Music (Menier Chocolate
Factory), the UK tour of Pygmalion for Theatre Royal Bath and
Follies in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Dale Rapley will play the role of Mal Beineke. His previous
theatre credits include King John (Rose Theatre
Kingston), Richard III (West
Yorkshire Playhouse), Women on the Verge
of A Nervous Breakdown (West End), The Wizard in Wicked (UK tour), and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and for the RSC.
Grant
McIntyre will be playing the role of Pugsley Addams in his first UK tour,
following recent roles in We are Here
at the National Theatre and Bugsy Malone
at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Dickon Gough will play Lurch. His previous credits include Pirates of Penzance at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and on National tour, Carmen, Krol Roger, Guillaume Tell and Die Fliegende Hollander (Royal Opera
House), and Dulcamara and L’Elisir d’Amore (Ravenna Festival,
Italy).
Oliver Ormson will appear as Lucas Beineke. Most recently, he played Elder Price in The Book of Mormon in the West End.
In addition, the ensemble includes Kathryn Barnes, Jessica
Buckby, Perola Congo, Gavin Eden, Jacob Fisher, Christopher D Hunt, Kirsty
Ingram, Rhona McGregor, Scott Paige and Jak Skelly.
They will all be joining the previously announced Samantha
Womack (BBC 1’s Eastenders, Sky 1’s Mount Pleasant, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls)
as Morticia Addams, Les Dennis (Coronation
Street, Chicago, Hairspray) as Uncle Fester and Carrie Hope Fletcher (Les Misérables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as
Wednesday Addams.
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness,
has grown up and has a shocking secret that only Gomez knows; she’s fallen in
love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family! Now, Gomez Addams
must do something he’s never done before — keep a secret from his beloved wife,
Morticia. Everything will change for the
whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal”
boyfriend and his parents. All the usual
clan are present - Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley et al.
The Addams Family will be directed by Matthew White,
with choreography by Alistair David, production
design by Diego Pitarch, musical supervision by Richard Beadle, lighting design by Ben Cracknell and
musical direction by Andrew Hilton. Book is by Marshall
Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, based on the
characters created by Charles Addams.
THE
ADDAMS FAMILY UK & Ireland Tour is produced by Aria Entertainment and Music
& Lyrics Limited, in association with the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, and
is presented through special arrangement with Theatrical Rights Worldwide. The
UK Tour will open in Edinburgh on 20 April 2017.
For
further information, please visit www.theaddamsfamily.co.uk Twitter: @AddamsFamilyUK
2017 TOUR SCHEDULE
20-29 April 2017 Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
9-13 May 2017 Royal &
Derngate, Northampton
16-20 May 2017
New Wimbledon Theatre
www.atgtickets.com/venues/new-wimbledon-theatre
0844 871 7646
23-27 May 2017 Marlowe Theatre,
Canterbury
30 May – 3 June 2017 Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
13-17 June 2017
Theatre Royal, Bath
www.theatreroyal.org.uk 01225
448844
20-24 June 2017 Hall for Cornwall,
Truro
www.hallforcornwall.co.uk 01872
262466
27 June – 1 July 2017 Nottingham Theatre Royal
4-8 July 2017 The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
www.bradford-theatres.co.uk 01274
432000
18 – 29 July 2017 Mayflower Theatre,
Southampton
1-12 August 2017 Cardiff, Wales
Millennium Centre
www.wmc.org.uk 029 2063
6464
15-26
August 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin
29 August – 9 September
2017 The
Lowry, Salford
www.thelowry.com 0843
208 6000
12-16
September 2017 Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk 0114
249 6000
19-23 September 2017 Bristol Hippodrome
www.atgtickets.com/venues/bristol-hippodrome
0844 871 3012
26-30 September 2017 New
Victoria Theatre, Woking www.atgtickets.com/venues/new-victoria-theatre
0844
871 7645
3-7 October 2017 Grand
Opera House, Belfast
10-14 October 2017 Glasgow
King’s Theatre
www.atgtickets.com/venues/kings-theatre
0844 871 7648
17-21 October 2017 Wolverhampton
Grand
www.grandtheatre.co.uk 01902 429 212
24-28 October 2017 Milton
Keynes Theatre
www.atgtickets.com/venues/milton-keynes-theatre
0844 871 7652
31 October – 4 November 2017 Orchard
Theatre, Dartford
www.orchardtheatre.co.uk 01322
220000
