Exchange student from Czech Republic in Texas: The Addams family show

I’m really excited to share with you this amazing experience. I’m going to write about a school theater show – The Addams Family Musical. Where Mark (my host-brother), played Uncle Fester (one of the big roles). But I’ll start from scratch.

My first High school show was the musical GREASE in other school (Cy-Falls). So I kind of had an opinion about high school theater (and it wasn’t the nicest one). The Cy-Falls production was very slow and the story was fragmented. It seemed to be a series of songs (which should have been upbeat and fun) but were boring and the people on stage did not seem to have any fun.

On the other hand, I know how much time Mark spent practicing for the Cy-Ranch show. When I’m writing “a lot” I mean A LOT of time. So I was hoping that this show would be much better. I was pretty excited about seeing Mark and THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

Finally D-Day came on Saturday night. To add to the excitement, the audience included Tommy Tune Awards judges (competition for high school theatres – something like the Emmy Awards). So I found my seat in our auditorium and waited. (By the way the fact that every school has own auditorium is crazy). The house was sold out. The show started and I was amazed from the moment the curtain opened until it ended. The performances of characters in the main roles and extras were more than awesome. It was more like professional acting than a high school production. Also the set, costumes, sound, and lights were really incredible. (You may notice that I used a lot of superlatives in last paragraph but to be honest it is still not enough!) I hope they win every single award.

I was so proud of Mark that I almost cried. :D You know I heard him a lot singing in the shower and basically everywhere. I was happy for them. They did so great job. Several friends from the cast told me it was their best performance. I hope the judges were as impressed as I was with the entire performance.

(I uploaded also some photos with our stars. I have two shirts on photos because I saw that twice. :D And I do not have a focused photo with mark only :( )

It’s a pity if you didn’t see it. If you are interested in seeing production pictures, here is a link for official photos. http://ranchtheatre.smugmug.com/Productions/Addams-Family-the-Musical/ )