Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1/16/2025, “”Mount Madonna School Gets Creepy and Kooky with The Addams Family,” by Nick Sestanovich.
This year, seniors in Mount Madonna School’s high school performing arts program will be graduating and bidding farewell to a program that has allowed them to form bonds with those they might not have expected to.
Fittingly, their next play is about forming bonds with others, no matter how odd or normal they might be. “The Addams Family, A New Musical” will be performed Jan. 25 and 26.
Director Chelsea Otterness said seniors tend to have a lot of sway in what gets performed, and “The Addams Family” fit the bill for them.
“We have six awesome, bold, unique, kooky seniors, and it seemed like this play really suited their skills and disposition,” she said. “It really was a choice based on the cast that we have, and it’s really working out.”
The creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky Addams Family are characters who have conquered multiple forms of media for nearly a century. They were created by illustrator Charles Addams and appeared in a series of one-panel cartoons in The New Yorker, depicting a ghoulish family living in a gothic mansion who delight in the bizarre and macabre. The success of these cartoons led to an even more successful ’60s sitcom that paved the way for numerous cartoons and movies, and continues to delight audiences with the hit Netflix series “Wednesday.” Read more: (Sentinel subscribers only) or Download the PDF (available to all)
