London, April 10 (ANI): The new Broadway musical ‘The Addams Family’ has earned itself bad reviews from theatre critics, with one calling it a ghastly musical.

Nathan Lane, 54, starred as Gomez Addams, while Bebe Neuwirth, 51, played the role of Morticia in the new production based on the kooky family.

The curtain went up on the show in New York City on April 8, but critics were unimpressed.

And the New York Times’ Ben Brantley wrote a scathing review, branding the musical “genuinely ghastly”.

“Imagine, if you dare, the agonies of the talented people trapped inside the collapsing tomb called The Addams Family,” the Daily Express quoted him as writing.

“This genuinely ghastly musical… stars a shamefully squandered Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. Everyone else tries not to look embarrassed, though it’s not easy,” he stated.

Elysa Gardner, of USA Today, was also not impressed with the musical.

“The stabs at crass hilarity also seem ill at ease with the hokey plot,” she said.

And Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News’ called the show “half-baked”.

“By the two-and-a half hour mark The Addams Family really wears thin. Hearing the finale, Move Towards The Darkness, it struck me. Move towards the exit was a much better idea,” he added. (ANI)