News Photo by Darby Hinkley Rogers City Community Theatre actors, from left, Baylee Lijewski, Sophia Scheipek, Charlotte Heidemann, Brittany Vanderwall, Ashley Nowicki, Abby Muller, and Anna Kohler rehearse at Rogers City Theater. “The Addams Family” opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, with shows at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The same schedule runs March 18 to 20.

ROGERS CITY — Get ready for some dark comedy with a musical twist.

Rogers City Community Theatre presents “The Addams Family” opening this weekend at Rogers City Theater. The musical comedy starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday, this weekend and next, March 18 to 20.

“If you have watched the movies, or the cartoons, or the television show, these will be very familiar characters,” said Director Katy Carignan. “A lot of the things you remember will be in here … really hummable songs are in it, fun dances by local choreographer Ashley Nowicki. It’s just so much fun.”

She went on to explain that Wednesday, the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams, falls in love with a “normal” boy, and his family is coming home for dinner at the Addams’ very abnormal household full of creepy weirdness and morbid humor.

“And Wednesday is trying to present her family as not quite so weird,” Carignan added. “There’s even a whole song about, can I just have one normal night? Can we just not be ourselves for one night?”

“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and ooky! The Addams family musical has something for everyone–great songs and dances, a love story, all our favorite Addams characters and of course some macabre humor from our first family of dark comedy,” a press release from Rogers City Community Theatre states.

“The Addams Family” is a musical created by Charles Addams. The award-winning team Marshall Brickman and Rick Elicend and lyricist Andrew Lippa bring these macabre characters to life.

“This show is fun for all ages, bringing the humor of the Addams Family and music that will keep you humming as you leave the theatre,” Carignan stated in a press release.

“With music direction and sets by Karl Heidemann, choreography by Ashley Nowicki, costumes designed by Valerie Schalk, and makeup design by Katy Conklin, this is an opportunity to experience live theatre that will be fun for all ages. The actors will sing and dance as they tell the story of Wednesday Addams’ first love and the crisis that ensues when his family comes for dinner,” the release explains.

This show brings together new members of the RCCTcommunity and experienced cast and crew. Wednesday Addams, played by local high school student Lexi Haske, shines as the mysterious and macabre heroine. Brittany VanderWall plays the dark and sultry Morticia (her mother) who’s just not ready for her daughter to be in love. Gomez Addams (Garrison Benson) is the dramatic father and husband trapped between the two, and Fester Addams (Jodi Kamyszek) just wants to make everything work out for the family (and find a little love of his own), Lucas Beineke (played by Alex Czarnecki) is bringing his parents, Alice (Ashley Nowicki) and Mal (Karl Heidemann), to the Addams home for dinner and they may never be the same.

Joined by Grandma (Tanya Fowler), Pugsley (Baylee Lijewski), Lurch (Robert Starnes, Jr./Mike Marx, understudy) and a group of the Addam’s Ancestors (Theresa Gibson, Charlotte Heidemann, Elaine Heidemann, Anna Kohler, Alison Marx, Mike Marx, Abby Muller, and Sophia Schiepek), it will be a night no one will forget.

Tickets are $14 per adult and $6 per student. For more information please call 708-808-7228, Email: rogerscitytheatre@gmail.com. Visit Rogers City Community Theatre on Facebook, or at www.rcctheatre.org. Rogers City Theater is located at 257 N. 3rd St.

Carignan added that the cast rehearsed wearing masks to make sure no one got sick, but that they will not be wearing them in the live performances.