“The Addams Family” has some phenomenal performances, though. Benjamin Roberts, as Gomez, is charming and witty in the harried, sitcom-esque role of the family patriarch, while Keaton Brandt is delightfully wacky as the masochistic Pugsley. David Peña is a pitch-perfect Fester (the amorphously asexual uncle with a big heart who serves as a partial narrator) and can switch from gags to earnestness with lightning quickness.

The company's young artists infuse the musical incarnation of those spooky, ooky Addamses with fresh blood by the buckets