The Addams Family’ memorable

ADDAMS, from Page 4 didn’t come to fruition until the week before the show.

“From the very beginning when I met with my set designer and set builders, I had this wild idea of the Addams mansion breaking into pieces during the song ‘One Normal Night,’ and I told the students about it during our very first rehearsal together,” he said. “Most looked at me as if I was crazy because they weren’t sure how that was going to work based on a limited number of crew and spacing concerns and general safety concerns. I told them just to trust me and we’d figure it out eventually.”

As the process progressed, even he had doubts about the feasibility of such a set.

“The week before we started doing full runs of the show, we took time just to try it during a rehearsal and it took us three or four times to do it correctly and safely, but when they started spinning and finally clicked back into place, that was the moment that 1 knew all of the crazy ideas that we had and the little subtleties added throughout the show was going to make this one very special,” Johnson said.