Everyone knows the finger-snapping theme song to TV’s “The Addams Family” — but the Broadway musical of that name (inspired by Charles Addams’ original New Yorker cartoons) gets the lovably ghoulish ...

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Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Welk Resorts Theatre today announced its 2019 ...

John Kander and (the late) Fred Ebb made musical magic and theatrical history by doing something risky and daring. They juxtaposed musical theater pizzazz with dark, serious themes. It worked ...

A scene from 2017’s “Kiss Of The Spider Woman” at the Welk resort. The Theatre at the Welk in Escondido has revealed its 2023 musical theater season, which opens Jan. 28. The season includes plays ...

The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera may be “loosely” based on the last days of Jesus, but the Welk Resort Theatre’s dazzling JC Superstar is tight as a tourniquet. All elements cohere. All the ...

Elderly Fraulein Schneider sings these haunting lyrics in Kander and Ebb’s iconic musical, and these words are at the heart of Ray Limon’s current production at the Welk. Cabaret takes place in Berlin ...

Grandma only let me watch two TV shows in her upstairs lair. Not her stories; those soap operas were far too risque for a tyke such as I. No, these two mid-1960s programs were so radically different ...

In 1964, legendary bandleader and entrepreneur Lawrence Welk went for a drive in northern San Diego county, planning to invest in a grove of orange trees. Instead he bought a small hotel and a ...