Sorry that this post has taken so long. I finished the text months ago but I lost the program and I was too lazy to find it. Also I have not had a lot of inspiration to write this blog.
As I'm a goth, I'm ashamed to say. it took me over ten years to know the Addams Family, even though that show is part of the goth subculture. I thought of watching the movies for over 15 years, and watched them three years ago. Before then I had only seen some scenes from the 60's show and listened the theme music. But when I heard there was going to be an Addams Family musical, I knew, that I had to see it. The only problem was that it was in Jyväskylä, and it takes 3,5h to get there by train. Thankfully my friend Minna decided to go with me, and we booked the tickets. My original plan was to leave after the musical, but none of the trains left in the evening and we would have needed to stay up for the morning train. This would have worked for me, but I did not want to ask this for Minna, so we decided to take a hotel. We took Omena Hotel, the cheapest possible hotel and stayed there. I had Omena Hotel when I was in Tampere, and that hotel was pretty bad. So I was surprised that the Jyväskylä Omena Hotel was a lot better. But the entrance was kind of confusing. When we arrived there, there was a barrier and text that said "no enter" and then a door. So we did not even see the entrance of the hotel. But we arrived there, and after a while we arrived to the theater. The seats that we bought were not in use, but thankfully we got quite nice seats at the third row.
The show itself was pretty good. Gomez Addams, played by Paavo Honkimäki stole the show. He was just too good it is difficult to put to words. His acting and singing was perfect. I liked Morticia (Tytti Vänskä) and Wednesday (Saara Jokiaho) as well. They both sung very well, and I liked especially Wednesday. I never really liked Fester (Pekka Hiltunen), but he was not as annoying as in the movies, and Pugsley (Sami Ulmanen) was fine as well. Lucas Beineke (Miko Petteri Jaakkola) was super cute, and I really liked his singing and acting as a teenager. Some of the best notes were sung by Anna-Maija Oka who played Alice Beineke, and Grandma (Anneli Kauppinen) and Mal Beineke (Markus Virtanen) were okay as well.
Overall the musical was good, acting and singing was good and the band played well as well. The only thing I did not like were the costumes. They did not have their classic costumes, which really bothered me. Gomez did not have his classic pinstripe suit, but this weird red and black cape and vest. Wednesday's outfit was kind of weird as well, as she had this red and black dress. But at least she had her classic braids, as in some productions of this musical she has a different hairstyle. But the outfit of Morticia, oh my god, I hated it. She had this awful red and black flamingo style dress. Morticia would NEVER wear something like that. She would only wear full black dress. In the end she had a beautiful full red dress, but I kind of felt red is not her color in clothes. Also her hair was kind of weird, as usually the hair is down, she had this weird updo hairstyle. Wednesday and Morticia also did not have wigs, the actors had their own hair, and so neither of them had black hair, which kind of bothered me, as they should not have brown hair.
What also kind of bothered me, but what was funny at the same time, was that Gomez was taller than Lurch (Jouni Salo). Lurch is a character that is meant to be extremely tall. Even though he had 10cm platform shoes, he was still shorter than Gomez.
I had never seen the musical and decided to not to spoil myself. I had only seen the beginning, the overture and the song When you're an Addams. The plot was kind of silly. Basically Wednesday has fallen in love with a "normal" boy and that boy's family had been invited to visit the Addams. Wednesday said very clearly that they should act normal when the Beikene family arrives. This confused me. I thought the Addams family thought they were the normal, and everyone else was different. I'm not sure if the creators of the musical really understood Addams Family.
Anyway I really liked the show, even though the journey there was not that easy. Thankfully the trains of this day and age are not that uncomfortable. The next show I'm going to see is not a musical, but a play. I'm going to see The Hobbit play, as few years ago I saw the Lord of the Rings play.
