They're creepy and they're kooky ... and they're coming to the stage at Donegal High School. Donegal Performing Arts will present "The Addams Family - School Edition" on Friday, March 12, and Saturday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. The show will be livestreamed for audiences to watch in the comfort of their homes.

"The Addams Family" follows the tale of Gomez and Morticia Addams and their unusual family. When their daughter, Wednesday, falls in love with a "normal" boy, the family must figure out a way to handle it.

"Audiences can expect a lot of laughter at this show," said Ethan Steck, a 12th-grader who portrays Gomez Addams in the show. "It's really a show about Wednesday Addams growing up and liking boys and wanting to be a normal teen, which goes against everything her family stands for. It's also about Gomez keeping a secret from Morticia, which he's never done before, and how he's dealing with that."

Danielle Brady, a senior who plays Alice Beineke in the show, said audiences can expect to see two very different families coming together when Alice's son, Lucas, played by Gerson Malave, falls in love with Wednesday, played by Erin Kready.

"It's a show about two kids from two completely different worlds learning to accept each other," Brady explained.

This is the second time Donegal students have performed a livestreamed show, having done so for their fall production of "The Importance of Being Earnest."

"Doing a livestream is really different from a typical performance on stage, because you have to get used to there not being an audience and you won't have the audience reactions like you normally would," Steck said.

Brady agreed, adding, "It's really a completely different experience. You have to get used to learning where the cameras would be and delivering your lines to the right place versus just delivering them out into the audience like you usually would."

This year has been challenging for the cast and crew, she said. "With school being canceled for everything from COVID cases to snow, it's been tough," she remarked. "We can't come in for rehearsals if school is being held online, but learning music and choreography through Zoom is really impossible."

To help make sure the show will go on, the cast includes "swing" performers, who are able to step into any role at a moment's notice if necessary. Swings for "The Addams Family" are Lizzie Allen, Paul Metzger, Chloe Vasquez and Taj Younger.

Rounding out the Addams and Beineke families are Aubree Jones as Morticia Addams, Ryan Bedi as Fester Addams, Francyne Nichols as Pugsley Addams, Ashtyn Hess as Grandma Addams, Ricky Fitts as Lurch and Andrew Allen as Mal Beineke.

Brady said even though the year has been challenging for theater, the cast and crew have been dedicated to putting on a quality performance.

"I think everyone is taking this really seriously and working really hard," she stated. "We all realize what a gift it is to be able to do a show at all this year, and we're all appreciative of that."

To purchase tickets for "The Addams Family - School Edition," readers may visit http://tinyurl.com/DPA717.