You Can't Take It With You
Opening
March 12, 2010
Meet the Sycamore family, a zany bunch of free-spirited artists and oddball entrepreneurs. When daughter Alice announces her new boyfriend’s rich, conservative parents are coming to dinner, Alice’s family agrees to act “normal.” But when the prospective in-laws show up on the wrong night…all bets are off. The Sycamores are a large, free-spirited, lunatic family who are seemingly living without visible means of support. The Kirbys are a wealthy stuffy family of great self- importance. When romance blossoms between the only sensible Sycamore family member Alice, and the Kirby's son Tony, who is being groomed to head their very successful company, a perfect comedy erupts with both hilarity and wisdom.
You Can't Take It with You opened in New York in December of 1936 to instant critical and popular acclaim. This depiction of a delightfully eccentric family, the third collaboration by playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, proved to be their most successful and longest-running work. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, the comedy went on to run 837 performances on Broadway. Kaufman and Hart sold the film rights to Columbia Pictures for a record-setting amount, and the 1938 film won an Academy Award for best picture. Successful Broadway revivals in 1965 and 1983 also attest to the play's timeless appeal.
Performance Dates
March 12, 13, 14
March 19, 20, 21
March 26, 27 28
Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 PM
Sundays 7:00 PM
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