The new Addams Family musical that’s being fine-tuned for Broadway is not a hard sell for me. I’ve loved the TV series and cartoonist Charles Addams’ creations since afternoon repeats in the ‘80s. And my show music collection is riddled with, shall we say, unusual discs (death personified in Elisabeth; vampire tuners such as Bernard J. Taylor’s Nosferatu, Possessed: The Dracula Musical and Jim Steinman’s Tanz der Vampire; Broadway exes Young Frankenstein and Jekyll & Hyde; Canadian camp via the Evil Dead musical and incandescence à la Notre Dame de Paris; even the obscure Highlander: A Celtic Opera). So my ears perked up when I heard that gothic lovebirds Morticia and Gomez were Broadway-bound, now in the guise of Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane. Reviews were mixed during the fall tryout at Chicago’s Oriental Theatre, but the creative team has been busy as Grandmama with a new cauldron, stirring their potion so it’s ready for its Broadway debut at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8 (first preview, March 8).

The creative muscle behind this Addams adaptation includes authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys) and director/designers Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter), as well as puppetry — Thing and a man-eating plant, perhaps? — by Obie Award winner Basil Twist (Arias With a Twist). Broadway stalwarts Neuwirth and Lane (who have too many credits between them to list here) are joined on stage by Kevin Chamberlin (The Ritz, Chicago, Dirty Blonde, My Favorite Year) as Uncle Fester, Zachary James (South Pacific, The Toymaker, Coram Boy) as Lurch, Jackie Hoffman (Xanadu, Hairpray) as Grandma [sic], Adam Riegler (Shrek The Musical) as Pugsley and Krysta Rodriguez (In The Heights, Spring Awakening, Good Vibrations) as one-time PaperCity cover girl Wednesday. They’re visited by “straights” Terrence Mann (Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel), Carolee Carmello (Mamma Mia!, Lestat, Urinetown, The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Wesley Taylor (Rock of Ages) — the latter, a beau for the now-18-year-old Wednesday. Note: It’s a formidable cast, as all credits listed here are for Broadway performances.

Feel like paying a call on this Addams Family? Visit theaddamsfamilymusical.com for tickets and more information. (Be sure to click on the framed mansion to scroll through some iconic Addams cartoons.)