Shining Star Players Sets Inaugural Show for March

Shining Star Players Teen Production Company will present their inaugural production of The Addams Family at The Oakes Center (120 Morris Ave. Summit, NJ) on March 11, 12, and 13, 2016. Tickets for the show are $15 for Adults, $12 for Seniors/Children under 12.

The Addams Family premiered on Broadway in 2010 starring stage and screen actors, Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. The hysterical musical comedy played to packed Broadway houses for over 700 performances before embarking on a National Tour. The show’s creative team polished off the book, lyrics and storyline, spicing up the content for broader appeal. This brand new production features the Addams like you’ve never seen them before!

The Addams Family features an original story, and 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 weren’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. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Any fan of the movies, tv show, or cartoonist, Charles Addams, will be beyond pleased with this hilarious new take on comedy’s first family.

Shining Star Players was conceived and is directed by Alec Feinsot, a senior at Governor Livingston High School, in Berkeley Heights, NJ, who wanted to bring his love of theatre to the community. “The logistics have by no means been easy- from starting a Gofundme, applying for grants, getting a theatre venue, rehearsal space, licensing fees paid, finding like-minded theatre loving teens to help cast, choreograph, and so on- but I know the payoff by the time Opening Night comes will be worth every second put into this Company.”

The Addams Family features teens aged 12-18 from all over the New Jersey area: Bridgewater, Chatham, Clinton, Maplewood, Millburn, Short Hills, Montclair, Summit, Totowa, and Westfield.