Producers of the forthcoming Addams Family musical, set to debut here in November on its way to Broadway, announced complete casting at a press event this afternoon. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, long associated with the production in workshops, will indeed star as Gomez and Morticia Addams. Other members of the family include Second City and Xanadu alumna Jackie Hoffman as Grandmama; Kevin Chamberlin (Seussical, Dirty Blonde) as Fester; Krysta Rodriguez (In the Heights) as Wednesday; Adam Riegler (Shrek the Musical and YouTube’s “Cubby Bernstein”) as Pugsley; and Zachary James (South Pacific) as Lurch.

The show, with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys, Turn of the Century) and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, ages Wednesday to 18 and finds her falling in love with a “normal” boy named Lucas (played by Rock of Ages’s Wesley Taylor); the plot hinges on the Addamses’ first meeting with Lucas’s parents (Beauty and the Beast’s Terrence Mann and Mamma Mia’s Carolee Carmello). The family, while “actually quite perfect on their own terms,” as Elice said today, is confronted with the idea that they’re something other than normal themselves.

The show is the first Broadway project for longtime Chicago theater maven and former Disney Theatricals V.P. Stuart Oken’s locally-based Elephant Eye Theatrical. Previews begin Friday, November 13 at the Oriental Theatre. Tickets go on sale to American Express cardholders this Wednesday and to the general public May 29.