The Addams Family is moving into Midtown Nashville for Halloween weekend. Analog at the Hutton Hotel will host The Addams Family in Concert on October 30 and 31, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the show starting at 8 p.m. both nights, while parts of the hotel will be transformed into a haunted house for the occasion.
The concert is part of the hotel's Off Broadway series, which showcases Broadway talent in the South, according to WZTV. The cast includes performers from the Broadway company's first national tour of the musical, per the same report. Houston Style Magazine reports the lineup features Sara Gettelfinger as Morticia and Brian Charles Rooney as Gomez. Andrew Lippa is the musical's original composer and lyricist.
Behind the scenes, Rachel Potter is a Broadway veteran who once played Wednesday Addams herself in the original Broadway production of The Addams Family alongside Bebe Neuwirth and Brooke Shields, according to BroadwayWorld. That history gives Potter a direct connection to the material being presented to Nashville audiences.
A Haunted Hotel Takeover
Hutton Hotel isn't stopping at the concert hall. Parts of the hotel will be transformed into a haunted house, per WZTV, with immersive activities, food and drinks, and free entry to a Charles Addams cartoon exhibit included in the experience. The hotel is also offering weekend packages that include meet-and-greet access for traveling guests, giving out-of-towners a reason to make a full weekend of it.
The Charles Addams connection runs deep: the Addams Family characters began as unnamed single-panel cartoons the artist drew for The New Yorker in 1938, long before they became the media franchise now managed by the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation. That origin story gives the hotel's cartoon exhibit a tangible link to the 88-year-old property behind the musical.
Where the Show Happens
Performances take place inside Analog, a 5,000-square-foot, 300-person venue with living-room style seating on the hotel's second floor at 1808 West End Avenue, according to Visit Music City. The intimate room has a national profile beyond touring concerts like this one — Analog also serves as the permanent filming location for Recorded Live at Analog, an ongoing PBS music performance series, as noted by StyleBlueprint.
General and reserved seating tickets are on sale now, per WZTV. Attendees also get $10 flat-rate validated parking in the hotel's garage at 1811 Hayes Street and pre-show dining access at Evelyn's, the hotel's American restaurant.
A Broadway Pedigree Behind the Production
The Addams Family in Concert follows previous Off Broadway installments at the Hutton, including a Disney-themed January performance and a high-school musical tribute in April.
The Addams Family musical originally premiered on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 8, 2010, according to the Internet Broadway Database. Its Broadway history gives the musical a stage pedigree, including for a two-night stand in a 300-seat Nashville hotel venue.
Nashville's Halloween theater offerings this season join a wider regional wave of Addams-inspired programming, from a Cain Park staging that wrapped up in September. But the Hutton Hotel's version stands apart by folding a full concert, a haunted house, a cartoon exhibit, and hotel packages into a single weekend destination for Halloween-minded travelers.
