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The Addams Family's Zachary James on Serving Up Laughs
as Lurch
By Michael Mellini

Age: 28

Hometown: Spring Hill, Florida

Currently: Grunting around as the dutifully deranged butler Lurch in Broadway’s newest hit, The Addams Family

Marching in the Band: The son of a professional jazz guitarist, James played percussion and served as drum major in his high school marching band. Though his first goal was to become a band director, he harbored a longing for musical theater, as well. “We did Grease every two years because it sold tickets,” he jokes.

From Playbill.com:

First Lady Michelle Obama, her daughters and mother enjoyed another Broadway show — the second in two days. On March 22, they took in the 8 PM preview of the musical The Addams Family at the Lunt-Fontanne, a spokesman for the show confirmed to Playbill.com.

Mrs. Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Mrs. Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, were not scheduled to meet the cast of the new musical about a creepy, gothic family. The show, with songs by Andrew Lippa, is drawn from the characters created by illustrator Charles Addams.

The First Family is bringing a bright spotlight to Broadway this week. On March 21, the Obamas (minus President Barack Obama) attended the matinee of Memphis at the Shubert Theatre.

The private schedule of the First Family has not been announced, due to security issues, so it is not known if the Obamas will be seeing more Broadway shows this week.
The Addams Family, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as the heads-of-household of a haunted mansion, officially opens April 8.

The March 22 performance began on time. The Obamas were quietly seated in the orchestra section just before the start of the show, Playbill.com learned. (It was originally reported that they were in the balcony.)

A health-care joke in the script has been popular with audiences in the week leading to the March 21 Congressional vote on health-care reform, and was especially resonant with Mrs. Obama in the house, observers said.
The cast, crew and musicians were aware of the presence of the First Family shortly before the performance; a Secret Service sweep is an obvious tipoff.

Mary-Mitchell Campbell, the conductor and music supervisor of the show, admitted that she resisted the urge to look out into the house for a glimpse of the Obamas; there was work to be done, after all.

Campbell told Playbill.com, "We were extremely honored, excited and proud that she came to see our show."

This just in from Playbill.com:

Decca Broadway will record the original cast album of the new Broadway musical The Addams Family, now playing previews at the Lunt-Fontanne toward an April 8 opening. The disc will be available everywhere in June 2010.

The Addams Family features a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (librettists of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys), and music and lyrics by Drama Desk Award winner Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party). Lippa will also be producing the cast album, scheduled to be recorded in New York City following the show's opening in April.

The show's music director is Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The production features orchestrations by Larry Hochman (Monty Python's Spamalot) and dance arrangements by August Eriksmoen (Memphis).

The Addams Family marks the launch of Decca Theatricals, Decca's first major venture as a Broadway producer. Its recording division, Decca Broadway, is billed as the world's largest producer of Broadway cast albums. The catalog includes everything from the original Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945), to such recent releases as the Grammy Award-winning Wicked and Mamma Mia! (cast album and film soundtrack), as well additional Grammy-Award winners Spring Awakening and Monty Python’s Spamalot.

Of the venture, chairman of Decca Label Group Christopher Roberts stated, "Our new division, Decca Theatricals, is an exciting expansion of our operations. It now affords us the opportunity to become financial supporters and full time participants in theatre, and extend our creative expertise beyond just cast recordings."

Starring two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth as Gomez and Morticia, The Addams Family also stars two-time Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, two-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, two-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandmama, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Wesley Taylor as Lucas Beineke and Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday.
For more information, visit www.theaddamsfamilymusical.com

This just in from Playbill.com:

The Addams Family, the new Broadway-bound musical about the winds of change blowing though the haunted mansion of the famously macabre family, will star two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth.

Lane (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Producers) and Neuwirth (Sweet Charity, Chicago) will play bizarre husband and wife Gomez and Morticia, respectively. Also creating roles in the show's fall world-premiere tryout at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre in Chicago will be two-time Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann (Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables) as Mal Beineke, two-time Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello (Parade, Lestat) as Alice Beineke, two-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin (Seussical, Dirty Blonde) as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman (Hairspray, Xanadu) as Grandmama, Zachary James (South Pacific) as Lurch, Adam Riegler (Shrek) as Pugsley, Wesley Taylor (Theatre World Award winner and Outer Critics' Circle nominee this year for Rock of Ages) as Lucas Beineke and Krysta Rodriguez (In the Heights) as Wednesday.

The original musical by Tony-nominatd librettists Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) and Drama Desk Award winner Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is not based on past Addams Family properties, but uses characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. The Addams illustrations inspired a TV sitcom, a TV cartoon series and two live-action feature film comedies. WWW.THEADDAMSFAMILYMUSICAL.COM

Competing as a finalist in the 2009 Lotte Lenya Competition hosted by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music at the Eastman School of Music, Zach won Third Place in the annual international competition.

For more info visit The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music:
WWW.KWF.ORG

On Thursday, November 20th, Zach appeared on the Emmy Award winning sitcom 30 ROCK as Carl the U.S. Marshal with Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin in the episode, "Gavin Volure", directed by Gail Mancuso.
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Zach reprised the role of Petr for an October studio recording of Bryan Putnam's THE TOYMAKER, in which he played the title role in a York Theatre staged reading earlier in the year. The York incarnation starred Christiane Noll as Sarah. To hear music from the show visit the Sound Clips page to the left. For more information on THE TOYMAKER visit:
WWW.THETOYMAKERMUSICAL.COM

This just in from Playbill News:

Zach will be playing the role of Lurch in a reading of the new Broadway-bound musical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by JERSEY BOY's Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The reading is directed by director/designer team Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch and music directed by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth star as Gomez and Morticia, respectfully.

TONY AWARDS 2008

Lincoln Center Theater's lush revival of South Pacific took the most awards of any show of the season: seven. The Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific won Tonys in all four musical design categories: Scenic Design (Michael Yeargan), Sound Design (Scott Lehrer), Costume Design (Catherine Zuber), Lighting Design (Donald Holder). Its director, Bartlett Sher, was Tony-honored for Best Direction of a Musical. The depth of LCT's Vivian Beaumont Theatre helps make the World War II tropical island setting of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic an expansive, sensual world, complete with sand dunes and a horizon of volcanic mountains on the sea.

Brazilian opera star Paulo Szot won as Best Actor in a Musical for playing Frenchman Emile deBecque in South Pacific. It is Szot's Broadway debut.

On Monday, June 23rd, Zach sang in a benefit for the Sichuan, China Earthquake Relief, sponsored by Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids, and produced by Zhu Monkey Music. This one night only event was held at Evergreen at 10 East 38th Street.
For more info visit:
WWW.ZHUMONKEYMUSIC.COM

On April 14th the cast of the Broadway revival of South Pacific recorded the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II score for a forthcoming cast album.

David Caddick and David Lai produced the recording of the classic musical — which plays the Vivian Beaumont Theater — for Sony BMG's Masterworks Broadway label. Listen to samples, watch video from the recording session, and order the album at Amazon.
WWW.AMAZON.COM

Zach is currently performing in the Lincoln Center Theater Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC, which began previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater March 1st with an official opening date of April 3rd.

The cast is headed by two-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara as Nellie Forbush and Internationally acclaimed opera singer, Paulo Szot as Emile de Becque with Matthew Morrison as Lt. Cable, Danny Burstein as Luther Billis and Loretta Ables Sayre as Bloody Mary.

Directed by Bartlett Sher, the company features Sean Cullen (as Cmdr. William Harbison), Victor Hawks (Stewpot), Luka Kain (Jerome), Li Jun Li (Liat), Laurissa Romain (Ngana), Thomas G. Waites (Captain George Brackett) and Noah Weisberg (Professor).

The ensemble comprises Becca Ayers, Wendi Bergamini, Genson Blimline, Grady McLeod Bowman, Charlie Brady, Matt Caplan, Christian Carter, Helmar Augustus Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Margot de la Barre, Christian Delcroix, Laura Marie Duncan, Mike Evariste, Laura Griffith, Lisa Howard, Maryann Hu, Zachary James, Robert Lenzi, Garrett Long, Nick Mayo, George Merrick, William Michals, Kimber Monroe, Emily Morales, Darius Nichols, George Psomas, Andrew Samonsky and Jerold E. Solomon.

South Pacific has music by Rodgers, lyrics by Hammerstein II and a book by Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. It's adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener.

The Lincoln Center Theater production features musical staging by Christopher Gattelli, sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Scott Lehrer and musical direction by Ted Sperling, conducting a 30-piece orchestra performing the musical's original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and dance and incidental music arrangements by Trude Rittman

South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, won nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for its Broadway debut in 1949.

Tickets for the Lincoln Center Theater revival are available at the Lincoln Center Theater box office (150 West 65th Street), at Telecharge.com or by visiting Lincoln Center Theater's official website. For tickets and more information, including production media visit: WWW.LCT.ORG

On May 2nd, Zach played the role of Petr with Christiane Noll as Sarah in Bryan Putnam's THE TOYMAKER at the York Theatre as part of the Developmental Reading Series.

A haunting tale of enduring passion and hope, The ToyMaker tells the story of a disillusioned young woman whose marriage has fallen apart after two failed pregnancies. Stories of a childless toy maker in an ill-fated town of the past have set her on a desperate search for the last toy made by this man. Thus begins a journey that spans the globe and time itself. The horrors of the past, an encounter with a blind woman who holds a secret, and an unlikely new friendship with a Czech street urchin named Doby lead her towards a destiny of fulfillment she once thought impossible. WWW.THETOYMAKERMUSICAL.COM

On Sunday March 30th & Monday March 31st Zach sang the title role in Neil Wolfe's CREATION in a world premiere concert presentation at The Actor's Temple on West 47th Street in NYC. Enjoy the video clips below of Creature's Narrative and the ballad, One Gift.

On the 7th of January, Zach read the role of Zbigniew in Dahn Huini's new play, MURMERS AND INCANTATIONS,
at Theatre 54

Zach spent December at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut as the Ghost of Christmas Future in A CHRISTMAS CAROL directed by the award-winning Tazewell Thompson
WWW.WESTPORTPLAYHOUSE.ORG

This just in from Playbill.com:

A by-invitation-only reading of the new musical Red Eye of Love, sponsored by the Public Theater, will be held in Manhattan Oct. 22.

The reading, Playbill.com has learned, will boast the talents of Laura Marie Duncan (as Selma Chargesse), Cheyenne Jackson (as Wilmer Flange) and Richard Kind (as O.O. Martinas). The ensemble will comprise Cole Burden, Kimberly Chesser, Harris Doran, Rebecca Eichenberger, Montego Glover, Ann Kittredge, Zachary James, Orville Mendoza and Will Trice.

Tony Award-winning orchestrator Ted Sperling will direct the reading of Red Eye of Love, which is based on a play by Arnold Weinstein. The musical features book and lyrics by Weinstein and John Wulp and music by Jan Warner.
WWW.PUBLICTHEATER.ORG

Zach spent November of 2007 as an Egyptian Soldier in the Metropolitan Opera's AIDA.
WWW.METOPERA.ORG

Zach returned to NYC to the part of Gargantus in the New York Musical Theatre Festival's production of MACCABEAT! THE HANUKKAH MUSICAL. Songs by Harvey Shield and Richard Jarboe. Book and additional music and lyrics by Chayim ben Ze'ev. From an idea by M. Edelman, based on stories in the 1st and 2nd Book of Maccabees by Jason of Cyrene
WWW.NYMF.ORG

Zach spent the summer as Miles Gloriosus in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at the Theatre by the Sea in Matunuck, Rhode Island. The historic, beach-side theatre which once hosted the likes of Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Groucho Marx and Marlon Brando has been dark since the 2003 season and reopened with the Sondheim musical comedy. The production was directed by Amiee Turner, cast member of the 1996 Broadway Revival of the show.
WWW.THEATREBYTHESEA.COM

On May 2, 2007, Zach made his Broadway debut in the National Theatre of London import CORAM BOY at the Imperial Theatre, as a member of the on-stage choir. Though nominated for six Tony Awards and a smash hit in London, the show closed on Broadway May 27, 2007.