Surflight Theatre’s second mainstage musical of the 2022 season is “The Addams Family,” which opened June 21.
Bad reviews can crush a show. I remember a boss named Bernie when I worked on Wall Street in 1982 who couldn’t wait to see a Broadway revival of the 1904 George M. Cohan musical “Little Johnny Jones” starring Donny Osmond. He was so excited he couldn’t stop talking about it because he had tickets for the show’s second night.
Well, here’s what happened: “This was an eye opener for me on Broadway,” Osmond wrote.
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