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Creepy, comic ‘The Addams Family’ endures as tour of musical version arrives in Dallas

The Broadway musical "The Addams Family" is touring through Dallas, presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
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The Broadway musical "The Addams Family" is touring through Dallas, presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Pop culture artifacts never die. Hence, the continuing presence of The Addams Family, which started in the 1930s as a single panel cartoon in The New Yorker and became a sitcom that ran for two seasons, 1964-1966, on ABC. Wednesday, a spinoff Netflix series revolving around the daughter of creepy but harmless couple Gomez and Morticia, premiered in 2022.

In between, there was a movie about the family and their weird relatives and pets and a Broadway musical whose third tour is making a brief stop in Dallas this month, presented by the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Though not well-reviewed, the musical had a successful run in New York and has been produced all over the world.

June 26-28 at Winspear Opera House. Details, tickets at attpac.org.

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This community-funded journalism initiative is funded by the Better Together Fund, Carol & Don Glendenning, City of Dallas OAC, Communities Foundation of Texas, The University of Texas at Dallas, The Dallas Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, James & Gayle Halperin Foundation, Jennifer & Peter Altabef and The Meadows Foundation. The News and KERA retain full editorial control of Arts Access’ journalism.

Manuel Mendoza is a freelance writer and a former staff critic at The Dallas Morning News.