But basically just ba-ba-ba-bum. And the fact that they set it up with, you know, giving it a name that was actually, "Oh, it's actually this other exotic name, but really what it means is full disclosure. " And life is never the same. Andrew: I feel like you already have the conflict without even doing that, though. Full Disclosure, Parts 1 & 2. I think the book was better but in its comedy - like in the one-liners and the laugh lines - Really a lot of really great one-liners, which makes sense. It just keeps boring you in new and exciting ways. Jess: Well, were you the only one that knew how to play piano? While the storm rages, Wednesday packs a bag, but Lucas has no appetite for running away and getting married without his parents' blessing. I love Fester coming in with the football thing, and grandma's a nurse, and Pugsley just came from Bible study. Andrew: The Addams Family mercenaries. But maybe that's just the movie that I've seen, and it just doesn't have that tone and the rest of The Addams Family property is totally fitting of this, but this...
And I think that's great. And also, chocolate. Andrew: Is it actually? But maybe it's just because I don't think there's a real dramatic arc to the music and storytelling of The Addams Family, even at its best, where I feel like you can have a sloppy lyric here and there and it would still kind of work for me because the Addams are sloppy here and there. Brent Black: The thing is, if we're doing a Broadway musical comedy - this is a given, right? I mean, really, the second act is this combination of making sure the stars all get their one more number, whether they're good or not, and wrapping stuff up.
Like, I love so-bad-it's-good. Torture rack and lever (needs some fixing). And to your point, Jess, it seems like they've explored that in the TV show. Brent Black: It's true. Upload your own music files. And I don't think either works. But instead of it being a gag we're in on, I'm just sitting there going, "God who replaced Morticia with this asshole? Andrew: They might get discharged for being too gruesome, honestly. But I want to hear Andrew's general opinion - both of your general opinions. All the air came out of it two scenes ago. It's a very cute song. Andrew: The only member of the Five Timers Club. Andrew: Or she could just be away for a week. I'm playing full disclosure.
In the guest room, Alice, under the influence of the darkness potion, can no longer rhyme. Jess: I will admit I listened to this song originally in a vacuum, imagining a better show around it. Jess: Epstein was an Adaams. If it was an electric chair and it just literally, like, went off and like a kid can mine that a little more... Andrew: Well, what if it was like the actual medieval ones where they pull your arms straight up and your legs straight down instead of being pulled sideways? Andrew: The opener doesn't have any of the issues that the rest of the show has.
I see everything coming. " Morticia: What a moment of pride. It is incredible, we're always so –. Andrew: Well, they also have very small character acts for all the ghosts. Jess: Continue, Andrew, please. Neither can she tolerate her husband's cynical attacks on Lucas and love. So I kept secret for 17 and a half hours. Worst part - one of the worst parts of both versions is what they did to poor Morticia, who is such a great character and they just made her this really grumpy, like, stereotypical "I'm the wife and I've got problems with things" and it's like –. In "Waiting", Alice also confesses, leading to the end of the game because the story is supposedly "too grim, even for us! " Gomez and Morticia are understandably leery. But how would you compare your perfect version of this to La Cage aux Folles/The Birdcage?
I mean, and not long into it. There's these things that just feel, like - And look, this is possibly just my dirty mind, but it feels like it's adjacent to some kind of weird, creepy stuff. And it's sad and all that. I mean, I don't know. Brent Black: I think either one is flawed because they don't follow through on either one as the protagonist in either version. There's a lot of them, but one of them specifically bothers me because I hate it. Because the 60s TV show could not be quite as risqué or edgy as a single-panel comic strip in The New Yorker could be. But I do love the song and the melody of the Broadway version - the Broadway version song Morticia, which is a first act song.
Andrew: Why are they yelling into a cup? Why is Wednesday self-aware of her family in a way that nobody else in the family is?