{"id":3185,"date":"2010-11-24T20:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2010-11-24T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T01:21:51","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-addams-family-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3185","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving, &#8220;Addams Family&#8221; Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that there is a dearth of Thanksgiving related shows and musicals. I guess there isn&#8217;t that much to use the holiday for, except maybe the backdrop of a scene. But since it seems that Christmas gets started earlier and earlier each year, it becomes more obvious to me that the fourth Thursday of November lacks the same\u00a0entertainment punch\u00a0given to other holidays. There are plenty of classic TV episodes and the film classic <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093748\/\">Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>but for the most part Thanksgiving remains firmly ensconced in educational theatre.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite Thanksgiving-related\u00a0theatre moments comes from the film sequel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106220\/\">Addams Family Values<\/a>, <\/em>in which Wednesday (current Broadway star Christina Ricci)\u00a0and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman)\u00a0are forced to go to the sunniest, most saccharine summer camp this side of <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>. After a summer being treated as misfits by the insufferably cheerful campers and counselors (hilariously played by Peter MacNicol and three-time Tony winner\u00a0Christine Baranski), the duo and their outcast friends enact their revenge during the climactic (and hilariously politically incorrect) Thanksgiving pageant. Among the mothers in the audience on screen are theatre faves\u00a0Harriet Harris and Julie Halston. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that there is a dearth of Thanksgiving related shows and musicals. I guess there isn&#8217;t that much to use the holiday for, except maybe the backdrop of a scene. But since it seems that Christmas gets started earlier and earlier each year, it becomes more obvious to me that the fourth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=3185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Thanksgiving, &#8220;Addams Family&#8221; Style<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1123,2199],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-thanksgiving","tag-the-addams-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}