The Addams Family

Theatre Royal, Bath

- by Gerald Parker

If you wanted proof that the Bath Light Opera Group move with the times and have their fingers on the pulse of popular trends in musicals, then all you have to do is look down the list of their past productions since they were formed in 1948.

Gilbert and Sullivan gave way to genuine light opera, The Maid of the Mountains, Student Prince and Desert Song, onto Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter musicals, before moving into the 21st millennium with Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Evita, Sister Act, and now the outrageous humour of The Addams Family.