You Can’t Take It With You
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| Staff | |
| Producers | Carol Harris |
| Anne Hepner | |
| Director | Steve Spencer |
| Assistant Director | Kae Jenny-Spencer |
| Stage Manager | Allison Hodgdon |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Beth Dewey |
| Make-up direction | Tom Hepner |
| Costume Design | Zana Vartanian |
| Sound Design | Stephen Porter |
| Lighting Design | Beric Dunn |
| Set Design | Steve Spencer |
| Props Manager | Glynis Crabb |
| Master Carpenter | Rich Kaiser |
| Scenic Artist | Glynis Crabb |
| Set Dressing | Billy Tindall |
| Dramaturge | Christine McElroy |
| House Manager | Trudy Parks |
| Sound Board Operator | Carol Harris |
| Anne Hepner | |
| Lightboard Operator | Ray Trimble |
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| Cast | |
| Penelope Sycamore | Lisa Singleton Quijano |
| Essie Carmichael | Alika Spencer |
| Rheba | Christine McElroy |
| Paul Sycamore | Tom Hepner |
| Mr. De Pinna | Tom Engebretson |
| Ed Carmichael | Scott Valkenaaar |
| Donald | Rob “I” |
| Martin Vanderhof | Billy Tindall |
| Alice Sycamore | Jennifer Ellington |
| Henderson | Kel Whisner |
| Tony Kirby | Jonathan Bass |
| Boris Kolenkhov | Scott Lynch |
| Gay Wellington | Robin Harris |
| Mr. Kirby | Jon Reed |
| Mrs, Kirby | Julie Masterson |
| J Men | Jon Szczepaniak |
| Mauricio Quijano | |
| Kel Whisner | |
| Grand Duchess Olga Katrina | Christine McElroy |
You Can’t Take it With You is a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic play and was the basis for the 1938 Academy Award winning film directed by Frank Capra.
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before you realize that if they are mad, then the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. Tony, the attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore house on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores find it hard to realize Alice’s view. Tony knows the Sycamores live the right way with love and care for each other, while his own family is the one that’s crazy. In the end, Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores (particularly because he happens in during a visit by the ex-Grand Duchess of Russia, Olga Katrina, who is currently earning her living as a waitress).
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Photos: Morgan Hill Times