Ghoulish family fun that's stood the test of time

Bath Light Operatic Group duo Geoff White and Hannah Graham tell JEFFREY DAVIES about their excitement at starring in the company's new production of The Addams Family, where they play Gomez and Morticia Addams at the Theatre Royal in Bath

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A COMICAL feast that embraces the wackiness in every family! Bath Light Operatic Group (BLOG) makes a welcome return to the Theatre Royal in Bath next week with a new musical comedy - The Addams Family.

The show features an original story that is every father's nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met.

And if that wasn't upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. And everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's 'normal' boyfriend and his parents.

Bath Light Operatic Group always stage highly acclaimed productions. And it sounds as though West Country audiences are in for another treat with this new all singing, all dancing BLOG production of The Addams Family.

"The fact that it's a new musical makes it a little bit interesting to be honest, as opposed to the last few we've done which have been good old standards which have stood the test of time and were great to stage. But from our point of view it’s nice to do a new show from time to time like this one," Bath-born am-dram legend Geoff White - who plays the role of proud patriarch Gomez Addams, told me.

"A lot of people will have come across The Addams Family. I was born just before the black and white TV show in the Sixties so I obviously didn’t remember what it was about back then. But I have had a chance to have a look at some of them since and they're quite amusing and quite funny - if a little dated with the sort of humour of the time.