Chicago peeps - and others who like musical theater.

[tzikeh]

The pendulum swings wildly between possible awesome and possible fail on this one, and I have no idea where it will hang in the end:

Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth have signed on as the leads of tuner The Addams Family, which has nailed down an April opening on Broadway.

Improbable Theater's Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will co-design and co-direct.

Show's out-of-town tryout begins perfs at Chicago's Oriental Theater in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Nov. 13.

On Broadway, Addams begins perfs March 4 ahead of an April 8 opening at a Nederlander theater to be determined.

Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia=AWESOME. Nathan Lane as Gomez=WTF?!?! So... I will probably go, if for no other reason than the WTF factor. Though the design will *clearly* be awesome.

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[fox]

Nathan Lane as Gomez does kind of boggle the mind, yes.

But listen: TUNER?! (I mean - jargon is jargon, right. I'm obviously out of the loop. But gawd.)

[tzikeh]

I mean - jargon is jargon, right. I'm obviously out of the loop. But gawd.

Hee - that's been used for decades. "New Tuners Theatre" here in Chicago is a venue for fledgling musical theater lyricists and composers. Variety was calling musical movies "tuners" from the time they first arrived on screen.

[st_crispins]

Wow. Seriously, it works for me. I could see Lane with that little pencil moustache.

[tzikeh]

He'll have to *really* tone it down, in a sense, for me to buy it. We shall see!

[kirbyfest]

I'm going for Terrence Mann.