The Addams Family

Karlin Musical Theater, Karlin Musical Theater Big Scene, Prague, Czech Republic

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Important Info

Type: Musical

City: Prague, Czech Republic

Starts at: 19:00

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Duration: 2h 40min

Sung in: Czech

Titles in: English

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

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Overview

Creepy musical comedy is back! THE ADDAMS FAMILY is a family type of musical, with great music and intelligent humor, full of satirical exaggeration. Since its premiere at the Karlín Music Theater in the autumn of 2014, until May 2017, almost 120 reruns of this cruel entertainment have taken place. And now he's coming back in full force!

Cartoonist Charles Addams created his characters of the Addams family back in 1938. Following fifty years he was drawing his macabre characters for The New Yorker Magazine. The family of Addams is a satiric contradiction of typical American family. They indulge in black and macabre humor and are seemingly unaware or unconcerned that other people find them bizarre or frightening.

The growing popularity of 150 single-panel cartoons published in The New Yorker inspired other artists to use these peculiar characters. In 1964, a live action television series premiered on ABC and subsequently inspired a 1977 television film. An unrelated animated series aired in 1973 - 1975. The franchise was revived in the 1990s with a feature film series consisting of The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family values (1993) and another cartoon series (1992).

In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score.

The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8, after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009 to January 10, 2010. The Broadway production ran for 22 months, closing on December 31, 2011, after 35 previews and 722 performances. Since then, the musical has been seen all over the world.

The original cast featured big stars as Nathan Lane, known as Max Bialystock from The Producers (also seen at our theatre) and Bebe Neuwirth, original Velma Kelly from Chicago, the Musical (also seen at the Karlin Musical Theatre).

History

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period since their inception in 1938. They have since been adapted to other media, such as television, film, video games, comic books, a musical and merchandising.

Venue Info

Karlin Musical Theater - Prague
Křižíkova 10

The Musical Theatre Karlín is a theatre in the Karlín district of Prague devoted largely to the performance of operettas and musical theatre. Built in 1881, it is now the second largest theatre in Prague after the Prague State Opera.

The Karlin Theatre was founded by the excentric entrepreneur Eduard Tichý.

The baroque-revival building was built in 1881 with table arrangement and was originally designed for circus and later variety shows. With the legendary Karel Hašler – composer of more than 300 popular songs – cabaret came to the theatre after the First World War and the venue also hosted several theatrical groups from newly formed Czechoslovakia including the National Theatre from Bratislava. The table arrangement was replaced with regular theatre seats in rows in 1932. During the Second World War the Karlin Theatre gave shelter to the Prague´s National Theatre which was closed by Nazis.

Operetta "The Vagabond King" by Rudolf Friml was the first show after the end of war. This show started the era of repertory theatre which changed its name several times due to the political changes in the country: Theatre in Karlin, Operetta in Karlin and after the communist takeover in 1948 also Theatre of people´s art.

For the short period of time the theatre was headed by the legendary Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec who staged here – very first in Europe – American musical "Finian´s Rainbow", only year after its world premiere on Broadway.

In 1950 the theatre became a property of the City of Prague, in 1954 took over the government and in 1961 the theatre was returned to the City of Prague under the current name the Karlin Musical Theatre and stayed in its ownership till today.

In years 1963 - 1978 the Karlin Musical Theatre got second venue the Nusle Musical Theatre - which is now known as privately owned Fidlovačka Theatre. In 1981 second small venue was built right in the building and very popular small theatrical group Semafor played there till 1990. This small theatre was later renamed Karlínek (Little Karlin) and both venues were working side by side till August 2002, when destructive flooding nearly destroyed the building.

October 12, 2006 – after four years the Karlin Musical Theatre was re-open with a Czech premiere of the most successful Broadway musical of all time – 12 TONY Awards – "The Producers".

Since then the Karlin Musical Theatre successfully staged several operettas and many world known musicals.