As both Hollywood and Broadway plunged into the now-decades-old age of the remake, “The Addams Family” was bound to return. Based on the New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams and their adaptation into a 1964-66 TV situation comedy, the comically macabre characters have been resurrected in multiple films, as well as a stage musical and a very popular Netflix series called “Wednesday.”

Your latest opportunity to find out why pop culture has so avidly embraced these characters is a touring production of the 2010 musical that has brought the creepy old Addams mansion to the Ordway Music Theater stage for a week.

Tuesday’s opening night performance gave some clues as to why the Addamses endure. Their wildly off-kilter ways were an open rebellion against the “normal” in 1964 and — seeing as co

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