By Lyndy Berryhill

NATCHEZ — They’re creepy, and they’re kooky, and they’re coming to a stage near you.

The Natchez Little Theatre’s production of “The Addams Family” will be at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday at the theater at 319 Linton Ave. A matinee performance will be offered at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15.

The play is adapted for the small stage from the Broadway musical comedy based on the cartoon characters created by Charles Addams. The characters are best known from the 1960s television show of the same name.

Fans of the television show will recognize many of the characters from the series. Gomez and Morticia, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, the butler Lurch and others make appearances.

“Ultimately this is about family (and) family values,” said Layne Taylor, Natchez Little Theatre’s executive and artistic director.

Taylor said the play touches on what normal is for different families.

He said what appealed to him most about bringing the production to Natchez is that in the end, everyone learns something about themselves.

Ferriday native Hannah Hargis plays Wednesday who has grown up and fallen in love with a “normal boy” whose family hails from Ohio. The couple plans to announce their engagement at dinner, but the evening does not go as smoothly as planned.

Attendees can expect to see ghoulish dance numbers, plenty of jokes, a large cemetery set, a paper mache shark and a rocket launch scene.

Taylor said he hopes the play will be a sell-out. He said a large percentage of seats available have already been reserved, as of Tuesday evening.

Part of the main cast includes actual members of a local Adams family.

Husband and wife, Johnnie Adams and Katie T. Adams, of Larto, La., star as Mal Beineke, father of the prospective groom and Morticia Addams, mother of Wednesday.

The couple was asked to audition for the part after their son, Jackson Adams, was cast as Pugsley Addams, Wednesday’s little brother.

It is their first time to be part of a community theater production.

“The neatest thing to me is that we’re getting to do this all together,” Johnnie Adams said.

The family said they all agree that working with and getting to know the other cast members have been one of the best parts of driving over an hour to rehearsal multiple times per week for the past couple months.

But the Adams family said they have learned and laughed together.

“We appreciate theater a lot more,” Katie Adams said.