The Addams Family is coming to Belfast this year - just before Halloween

The UK and Irish premiere of The Adams Family, a musical comedy, boasts a star-studded lineup with Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher who star as Morticia, Fester and Wednesday Addams at the helm.

Samantha Womack takes on the role of Morticia Addams fresh from leaving BBC1’s EastEnders after nearly a decade as Ronnie Mitchell.

Samantha has also played Tanya Dawson for three series of the hit comedy Mount Pleasant (Sky1) and, in film she will be reprising her role next summer as Michelle Unwin in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

But Samantha is no stranger to the stage, with credits including her role as Nellie Forbushin in the Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award-winning production of South Pacific (Barbican Theatre & UK Tour), Michael Grandage’s West End production of Guys and Dolls opposite Patrick Swayze (Piccadilly Theatre) and Peter Hall’s production of Pinter’s Betrayal (Theatre Royal Bath).

Meanwhile Les Dennis has spent the last three years playing burglar-turned-Romeo, Michael Rodwell, in ITV’s Coronation Street.

Immediately prior to starring in The Addams Family, he will appear at the Menier Chocolate Factory in the musical She Loves Me.

Les’s other stage credits include the musicals Me & My Girl, Chicago, Monty Python’s Spamalot and Hairspray. He took a hit one-man play Jigsy, to the Edinburgh Fringe and, in 2016, produced and starred in the sell-out 40th anniversary production of Alan Bleasdale’s Down the Dock Road at the Royal Court Liverpool.

Carrie Hope Fletcher’s recent theatre credits include Eponine in Les Misérables (London and Dubai), Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK & Ireland Tour), Beth in Jeff Wayne’s Arena Tour War of the Worlds, and Wind in the Willows (Regent‘s Park Open Air Theatre).

With book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, based on the characters created by Charles Addams the Addams Family follows the story of Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness.

She has grown up and has a shocking secret that only Gomez knows; she’s fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family.

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.

All the usual clan are present -Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley et al.

The UK & Ireland Tour will be directed by Matthew White with choreography by Alistair David, who directed and choreographed Robbie Williams’s worldwide concert tour Swings Both Ways.

Tickets to see The Addams Family at The Grand Opera House are no on sale at goh.co.uk/addamsfamily. The show runs from Tue 3 - Sat 07 Oct 2017.