Stage review: 'The Addams Family' grabs the audience from the first snap, holds on with musical laughs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "The Addams Family" isn't coy about going for the funny bone -- it takes pains to grab you with a chain-rattling high note, a conspiratorial stare, a nostalgic gotcha or a Charlie Sheen groaner. In the musical comedy now at the Benedum Center, the ookey, spooky family of page and screen soars from the graveyard to the moon to leave us laughing.