The card interests me not only for its Addams family aesthetic, but also because it may help reignite a fading tradition.

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He recently wrapped a year on Broadway as straitlaced Mal Beineke in "The Addams Family, " followed by a featured role in the Encores!

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Director Barry Sonnenfeld, whose movies include "The Addams Family, " the "Men in Black" trilogy and "Get Shorty, " has put his roughly 6, 000-square-foot home in East Hampton, N.

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Rodriguez, who plays Ana Vargas on "Smash, " was last on Broadway in "The Addams Family, " originating the role of Wednesday Addams alongside Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.

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Lippa, who wrote the music and lyrics for Broadway's "The Addams Family" and the upcoming "Big Fish, " will play Milk in front of the 300-strong chorus and the 30-piece orchestra.

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That includes Terrence Mann ("The Addams Family, " "Beauty and the Beast, " the original "Cats") as the king, and Charlotte d'Amboise ("A Chorus Line, " "Jerome Robbins' Broadway") as the sexy stepmother.

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While researching the work of Charles Addams, the famed New Yorker cartoonist and progenitor of the eponymous, macabre family, I toted around a compendium of his work.

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