Wednesday

Tonight was a fun trip to the Holly Theater in Dahlonega to see "The Addams Family," a musical about our favorite October family (sorry, Munsters).  Gomez and Morticia were fabulous, and you can see Madison was all dressed up and ready for it as well, with her new Wednesday costume!

We've been watching the television series and the first movie this week in preparation, so Madison is all caught up on Addams Family lore.  She's a big fan of Thing, who you can see posed outside the theater here, after the show.

The show itself was a lot of fun!  The musical was great in that there were moments that each character was given to shine a bit, of course focusing on some of the favorites.  I guess that statement really depends on who your favorites are.  The whole family has a lot of character, that's for sure.

Here's Madison with Pugsley.  This is the brother and sister combo that everyone loves, and she's got that look about her like she's about to torture him, which of course is in character.  She was working on that straight facial expression all night, and quite proud of it.  She kept telling me how hard it was to keep a straight face, because she'd keep cracking herself up.

Here she's smiling a bit in front of some of the Addams Family ancestors, who are smiling too.  Wednesday didn't have a straight face all the time - when she was having a bit of mischievous fun, that smile would come out.  Still, nevertheless, her official photo pose seems to be more like this one here with Grandma.

One of our favorite jokes of the musical is that both Gomez and Morticia thought that Grandma was the other one's mother.  So they have no idea who this well-established character, this older woman that's living in their house even is!

Ah, and here's Uncle Fester.  He's one of everyone's favorites, and he has a great, great musical number tonight that's a lot of fun.  They all sang tonight, which isn't exactly in line with the movies or the television show, but it was still a lot of fun!

It was also sold out this weekend, with a lot of folks at the entrance standing there waiting for no-shows.  Lots of people were excited to see the play, and all of them were thrilled to see Madison walking in with her costume.  One of those fans was Wednesday herself:

Here's the girl who played Wednesday, all grown up.  At the end of the play, she's in her wedding dress as you see her here.  She's actually smiling at the end of the production, although she stopped smiling long enough to do a fun picture with Madison here.  Oh, and of course she got to pose with her favorite character, Cousin Itt.

It was creepy, cooky, and altogether ooky.  It was a fun evening tonight, which was just what we needed after a pretty long day at the office.  We spent a long time today working towards Get a Clue, which begins tomorrow.  It's going to be a great service and a great day.  Today was all about gathering costumes, editing videos, getting soundtracks together and getting printed material gathered.  We're ready for tomorrow - ready to Get a Clue.  But until then, what a blast spending time with the Addams Family!