All together now: “The Addams Fam-i-ly, snap snap.”

The musical comedy “The Addams Family” is showing Friday and Saturday at the Bryan Hall Theatre for Mom’s Weekend. The story follows the familiar freaky family as Gomez and Morticia’s daughter, Wednesday Addams, falls in love with a boy from a “normal” family.

Sarah Tisinger, a junior vocal performance major who plays Morticia Addams, said the show is a mix between lighthearted and dark comedy. While featuring the creepy family widely known in popular culture, the show is family oriented with topics of relationships and changing family dynamics.

Many remember the Addams Family from the black-and-white TV show and the 1991 film adaption. Sophomore vocal performance and cultural anthropology major Celena Hansen, who plays Grandma Addams, said the musical is a blend of what most would recognize with some interesting additions.

“It’s a really great mesh for the older generation that grew up watching the black-and-white version to the middle generation that saw the movie to the younger version that hasn’t seen it,” Hansen said.

Per the Addams Family image, the show holds plenty of spookiness to stay true to the family’s nature while steering the play away from the horror genre. Much of the creepy factor comes from interesting makeup, black clothing, and a set and lighting that adds to the ambiance, Hansen said.

Plenty more comes from the characters themselves. Tisinger described Morticia as someone who enjoys the dark, gothic family, liking the opposite of what regular people would.

“One of her lines is ‘What are the things the Addams want most in the world? Darkness, grief, and unspeakable sorrow,’” Tisinger said.

To emphasize on Morticia’s personality, Tisinger said she tries to portray her lines and obsession with death as a normalcy. In the past, Morticia could’ve been a sorceress and now she’s a stay-at-home mom, Tisinger said.

Memorable characters from the Addams Family include Thing the living hand (just the hand), Cousin Itt, and Lurch the butler, played in this production by sophomore communications major Matt Herman. Lurch’s presence alone indicates a creepy show, as he is the zombie butler/nanny for the Addams.

“It’s not clear if he’s part of the family or if he just works for them,” Herman said. “But he loves them, and they love him.”

Adapting to the character of Lurch required staging techniques to make the already 6-foot-tall Herman tower over the other actors, coupled with facial expressions since Lurch doesn’t talk much.

This is a somewhat stark contrast to 102-year-old Grandma Addams. The elderly family member says and does outrageous things like a crazy old woman who wandered out of her box in the subway, found the Addams, and never left, Hansen said.

“We try to stay true to the characters,” she said. “For me, I went a little bit further. Grandma is at the right level of crazy and I took her over the top.”

Hansen said the cast portrays the characters well, from the sensual Gomez and Morticia to the sassy Addams ancestors.

Although the musical production does justice to the style of the Addams Family, the show also features experiences that normal families go through. One of these is children growing up and falling in love, as Wednesday does, Tisinger said.

“I think this will change your vision of the Addams Family because it makes them feel much more real-life,” she said. “The audience will relate to them a lot more.”

“The Addams Family” will show in the Bryan Hall Theatre Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and senior citizens over 60.