Pleasant View—Weber High will present The Addams Family on February 27, 28 March 2, 5, 6 & 7. This play, inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more successful of the TV shows-turned-movies of the 1990s.
After a series of vignettes which establish the characters of Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, and family servants Lurch and Thing, the plot proper gets under way. A stranger, who is played by Christopher Lloyd, shows up on the Addams doorstep claiming to be the long-lost Uncle Fester. It appears, however, that Lloyd is a ringer, in cahoots with attorney Tully Alford to strip the Addamses of their fortune. In their usual against-the-grain fashion, the Addams Family seems to delight in the possibility that they're being hoodwinked. Indeed, not even kidnapping or death threats dampen the Addams clan's joy of living (or should we say dying?).
