You Can’t Take it With You – Community Theater Performance

You Can’t Take it With You
By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Grandpa Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia University – but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa is the paterfamilias of an extended, loving and eccentric family which includes a daughter who fancies herself a romance novelist; her husband, an amateur fireworks expert; a xylophone player/leftist leaflet printer; an untalented ballerina; a couple on relief; and a ballet master exiled from Soviet Russia. When Grandpa’s granddaughter Alice, an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s eccentricities, falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two families – so unlike in manner, politics, and finances – will never come together. And that’s when the fireworks begin…

During a disastrous dinner party, Alice’s worst fears are confirmed. Her prospective in-laws are humiliated in a party game and the house is raided by the FBI. Frustrated and upset, Alice intends to run away to the country, until Grandpa and Co. – playing the role of Cupid – manage not only to bring the happy couple together, but to set Tony’s father straight about the true priorities in life.  After all, why be obsessed by money? You can’t take it with you…

This production is a community theater performance directed by Matt Spence. 

NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR:

🎭 YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU! 🎭

What happens when one wonderfully crazy family collides with the very serious outside world? Chaos, laughter, and a whole lot of heart! Come join us for You Can’t Take It With You, a hilarious classic about family, love, and remembering to actually enjoy the life you’re living. ❤️ And this show is extra special for me… it will be my directing debut! 🎬

I’m Matt Spence, and after spending several years performing on the Emma Kelly Stage in productions like Matilda, Bright Star, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Tom Sawyer, among others, I’m excited to step behind the curtain this time and bring this crazy, wonderful story to life.

Come laugh with us! Bring the family. Bring a friend. And maybe leave your sanity at the door. 😂

You can’t take it with you… so you might as well have a good time while you’re here!

You Can’t Take it With You (Amateur Performance Rights) is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatist Play Service.

www.concordtheatricals.com