Shorecrest Performing Arts Presents "The Addams Family," April 10-12
Source/Author: Raffi Darrow, Shorecrest News Editor
March 13, 2025
Shorecrest Performing Arts Presents "The Addams Family," a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features every father’s nightmare! Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart, young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the spirited family (and their ghostly Ancestors) on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
This creepy and kooky performance has been adapted from the original Broadway production and is suitable for all ages.
Showtimes are Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11 at 7pm, and a Saturday, April 12 matinee at 2pm.
Admission Tickets are $20 / Student and Senior discounted tickets are $15.
Reserve and pay in advance for your tickets with our easy, online, secure payment link - open through Wednesday, April 9, midnight. Please visit the Janet Root Theatre Box Office in person to purchase tickets after that time, during open hours listed below.
- OR - tickets may be purchased by credit card or check at the Janet Root Theatre Box Office during open hours listed below.
Seats will be assigned in the order of purchase. Your tickets will be available to pick up at the Box Office Will Call window prior to the show. Remember to arrive early to park and pick up your tickets. No food or drink is allowed in the theatre.
Box Office hours:
Monday, April 7, 2:30-4:30pm
Tuesday, April 8, 2:30-4:30pm
Wednesday, April 9, 2:30-4:30pm
Thursday, April 10, 5:30-7:00pm
Friday, April 11, 5:30-7:00pm
Saturday, April 12, 1:00-2:00pm
The Addams Family School Edition is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by
Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com
THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL
Book by MARSHALL BRICKMAN and RICK ELICE
Music and Lyrics by ANDREW LIPPA
Based on Characters Created by CHARLES ADDAMS
Young@Part® Edition Adapted by MARC TUMMINELLI
Young@Part® Edition originally produced at Broadway Workshop in New York City
Select photos from dress rehearsal:
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Cast and Crew bios are listed in the printed program. Additional authors and pit orchestra bios below:
Authors:
Marshall Brickman (Author)
Marshall Brickman, born in Brazil of American parents, attended New York public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a double baccalaureate in both science and music.
He entered show business first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen, a precursor of The Mamas and the Papas, whose flamboyant life-style and eccentric harmonies defined the post-folk era of tuning up, turning on and cashing in.
Trading in his Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo for an IBM Selectric, he secured a position as writer/director on Candid Camera, America’s original reality show, a wildly successful early experiment in monetizing public humiliation, for which he hereby apologizes.
Fleeing Candid Camera, Brickman found solace as head writer for Johnny Carson, whose late-night show on NBC emanated from the ironically named Radio City in midtown Manhattan, a stroke of luck that allowed him to stay as far from Los Angles as possible while still retaining U.S. citizenship. In 1970 he left NBC to become producer/head writer of Dick Cavett’s late-night show on ABC. Among the many ground-breaking events that Cavett introduced into the late-night formula was the night presidential hopeful George McGovern was interviewed by last-minute guest host Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics. The result was fascinating, not unlike watching a python ingesting a small cow.
Mr. Brickman’s film work as author (or co-author with Woody Allen) includes Sleeper, Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan, (Academy Award nomination) and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As film writer/director:Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains it All. In television: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer, 1967-’70); The Dick Cavett Show (head writer/co-producer, 1970-’72).
Brickman’s recording (with ex-Tarrier Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, released in 1970, contained the surprise hit “Dueling Banjos,” achieved platinum status, and remains a healthy seller over 40 years later.
His first foray into musical theater resulted in Jersey Boys, which won the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann, Grammy and many other awards worldwide, has been seen by twenty million people worldwide and is one of the longest running shows in the history of Broadway. The film version of the show was directed by Clint Eastwood.
Mr. Brickman’s other theatrical efforts include Turn of the Century, which played to capacity houses in Chicago, and The Addams Family, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, which ran for two years on Broadway and to date has had over four thousand first and second tier productions internationally.
In addition to his work in film and theater, Mr. Brickman was published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. He was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.
After over 40 years in the business, trying to balance talent with opportunity and watching the careers of colleagues, both successful and less so, he can reduce what he’s learned into one succinct bit of wisdom: above all, it’s important to be lucky.
Rick Elice (Author)
On Broadway: Jersey Boys (Best Musical, 2006 Tony Award, 2007 Grammy Award and 2009 Olivier Award); The Addams Family; Peter and the Starcatcher (winner of five 2012 Tony Awards);and The Cher Show (winner of two 2019 Tony Awards). In the pipeline: The Princess Bride and Smash, co-written with Bob Martin; Silver Linings Playbook, a musical adaptation of the popular film; The Marvels, a musical adaptation of the popular novel; and Treasure, an original musical written with 2021 Ed Kleban Award-winner Benjamin Scheuer. From 1982-1999, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc, Rick created and produced ad campaigns for more than 300 Broadway shows, from A Chorus Line to The Lion King. From 1999-2009, he served as creative consultant for The Walt Disney Studio. Charter member, American Repertory Theatre. Trustee, The Actors’ Fund. BA, Cornell University; MFA, Yale Drama School; Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know, whose work makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Timbers, McAnuff, Laurents, Lippa, Stone, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Costello, Coyne, Brickman, and eternally, Roger Rees.
Andrew Lippa (Author)
Andrew Lippa is currently at work on numerous projects for stage and screen. New titles include Fairy Tale, written with Adam Gopnik, which tells the story of a father, a son, and the birth of Disco; La Casa de las Flores, written with Bob Martin and based on the hit Netflix Mexican television show; The Turning Point, based on the classic film and novel, for which Lippa is writing the book, music, and lyrics; and an original Christmas film musical titled A Totally Awesome Christmas Story with 10 new songs. His epic choral work Unbreakable had its world premiere with The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in San Francisco with 300 artists onstage including Mr. Lippa. Many more choruses across the country have presented this new work and the original cast recording, produced by legendary producer Leslie Ann Jones, was released by GhostlightRecords.com. He conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a new production of his A Little Princess in concert in London at the Royal Festival Hall in May, 2018 to a sold-out crowd of nearly 3,000 people.
His hit song “Evil Like Me” appears in Disney’s Descendants. Written for Kristin Chenoweth that soundtrack hit #1 on the “Billboard 200” album chart, #1 on the iTunes and Billboard soundtrack charts, has been viewed over 70 million times on YouTube and “Evil Like Me” was certified gold in 2017. On Feb. 1st, 2017, Lippa opened the new season of The American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center with his sold out concert of Andrew Lippa and Friends. In 2016, he composed and conducted a world premiere piece for the international piano virtuoso Lang Lang and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in Guangzhou, China. This new work, a 32-minute, 5-movement piece called Rising Tide, was reprised later in 2016 and recorded in China. Lippa’s epic concert work I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk had its world premiere at The Music Center at Strathmore in April of 2016 starring Kristin Chenoweth as Anne Hutchinson and Mr. Lippa as Harvey Milk. Summer 2016 saw the US premiere of Life of the Party – a musical compendium of Mr. Lippa’s career – produced by Theatreworks in Mountain View, CA and starring Mr. Lippa. Summer of 2017, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY, presented the world premiere of The Man in the Ceiling. Based on Jules Feiffer’s award-winning novel, this musical features a book by Mr. Feiffer and music and lyrics by Mr. Lippa who also played the role of Uncle Lester in this production. Recording also available on GhostlightRecords.com
Broadway credits include: Music and lyrics for Big Fish directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman; the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Addams Family (directed by Jerry Zaks), as well as the music for Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway play The Farnsworth Invention (directed by Des McAnuff). Other musicals include the Drama Desk award-winning musical The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics); A Little Princess (music); john & jen (music/book); Asphalt Beach (music and lyrics); and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics and arrangements), and the upcoming Love Somebody Now. His epic oratorio for men’s chorus, orchestra and soloists, I Am Harvey Milk has seen over 40 productions including Disney Hall, Lincoln Center, and London’s Cadogan Hall.
Awards: Tony, Emmy, Grammy nominations; shared Emmy for Nickelodeon’s “The Wonder Pets”; SFGMC Vanguard Award; The Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award; ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award; The Drama Desk Award; The Outer Critics Circle Award. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Lippa serves as president of the board of The Dramatists Guild Foundation (dgf.org), recipient of the Tony Award for Excellence in the American Theater. He was born in Leeds, England, grew up in suburban Detroit, and is an ordained Interfaith minister.
Explore all things Andrew Lippa at andrewlippa.com!
Musicians:
Keyboard - Judi Glover
Judi Glover is a graduate of Rowan University (Glassboro NJ) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance. She is currently the Principal Pianist in the Venice Symphony, a position held since the fall of 2018. She has performed with Broadway touring shows of Wicked and The Little Mermaid, and Regional shows of Legally Blonde, State Fair, Guys & Dolls, Camelot, The Music Man and Sound of Music. Since relocating to Florida in 2013 she has also performed with the Punta Gorda Symphony, the Naples Jazz Orchestra, and Disney’s Grand Floridian Society Orchestra. She is also a member of the Venice Symphony Jazz Orchestra, playing jazz big band events and other private functions. Other performances include showroom work for various entertainers at Bally's Grand Hotel & Casino and the Claridge Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, NJ.
Guitar - Paul Buzine
Fulltime Professional Musician/Composer/Arranger/
Reed - David Tagliarini
Tampa native David Tagliarini holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Florida in Flute Performance, and a Master of Music degree from Indiana University in multiple woodwinds. Mr. Tagliarini has toured the US, Canada, Germany, and Austria performing in Broadway National Tours such as My One and Only, Jekyll and Hyde, Beauty and the Beast, and Evita. Broadway credits include: The Music Man, Jekyll and Hyde, and The Immigrant. After 20 years playing principal flute with Opera Tampa, he now performs regularly with the St. Petersburg Opera, and is principal flutist with the Tampa Bay Symphony. David has performed at the Straz Center for over 100 Broadway National tours, including The Book of Mormon, The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, and Aladdin.
Trumpet - Mic Smith
Michael Smith received his formal orchestral training while attending the Peabody Conservatory. His professional orchestral experience includes performances with the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony, the Kennedy Center Ballet Orchestra, Sarasota Opera and many regional orchestras and chamber ensembles. As a commercial artist, Michael has held lengthy positions with both the Broadway and touring companies of Cats and has subbed for many other Broadway productions. Currently freelancing in the Central Florida area, he enjoys a wide variety of work as a classical soloist, a studio musician, big bands, Latin bands, corporate bands and shows.
Trombone - Sidney Fortner
Sid Fortner has played trombone in the Shorecrest Pit Orchestra since 2014. Originally from Savannah, GA, he holds a BA in Music Education from Columbus State University. For 22 years he played trombone with United States Army Bands in Europe, Fort Stewart-GA, South Korea and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is the Music Director for Limona Village Chapel United Methodist Church and Band Director for the Instruments of Change school music programs. An accomplished trombonist, Sid and his Yamaha trombone are a mysterious and spooky duo that can be heard in a variety of music groups in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Lakeland.
Bass - Steve Boisen
Steve Boisen has been performing throughout the Tampa Bay area for many years, playing both acoustic and electric bass with a wide variety of musical ensembles from jazz combos and big bands to symphony orchestras and popular music groups. A native of Long Island, New York, Steve studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music under scholarship before relocating to Florida. In addition to live performances, he is a frequent participant in recording sessions and his bass work can be heard on a variety of local, national and international releases. Steve Boisen has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the country and has performed and/or recorded with noted jazz artists such as Harry Allen, Ray Kennedy, Nate Najar, Chuck Redd, Dave Stryker, Bria Skonberg, Buster Cooper, Duduka da Fonseca and Houston Person. In the field of popular music, he has performed with Wayne Newton, The Coasters, The Modern Gentlemen and Greg Hawkes from The Cars.
Drums - Tim Diehl
Tim Diehl is playing in his 7th performance with Shorecrest Preparatory School for drums and percussion. Tim has been playing for over 50 years and has toured extensively and currently serves as house drummer for Urbane Cowboys, HPUMC as well and teaching and free-lance playing. Tim graduated from the University of South Florida.
Percussion - Mitchell Montgomery
Mitchell Montgomery is an endorsed freelance artist of Soultone Cymbals who has been performing drum set and percussion professionally across the state of Florida as well as abroad. He studied under masters, Robert McCormick and Ric Craig. He graduated with a Bachelors from the University of South Florida in May 2015, double majoring in both Jazz Performance and Percussion Performance.
In July of 2013 and 2015, Mitchell had the privilege of going on tour with the USF Jazz Ensemble, performing at major jazz festivals throughout Italy and France. Over the years, he has also had the pleasure to play alongside notable artists, such as: Michael Philip Mossman, Rufus Reid, Jack Wilkins, Oliver Nelson Jr., and John Lamb! Furthermore, Mitchell has played for numerous musicals across the state of Florida, including: 9 to 5, Fiddler on the Roof, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein, Music Man and Chicago. In 2017, he toured with Jesus Christ Superstar throughout California and Colorado!
Mitchell has been teaching private lessons for 10 years now and has also aided high school jazz and marching programs throughout the area. He has had the exciting opportunity to play a variety of shows with theme parks Busch Gardens and Legoland since the summer of 2015. And most recently, Mitchell Montgomery has been cast as Drummer for the new Epic Universe park!
Enjoy the show!
