This weekend and the next are your last chances to enjoy Garland Civic Theatre’s latest production, ‘You Can’t Take it with You.’ Remaining performances are Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 3, 4 and 5, as well as Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 10, 11 and 12. The shows Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., and the Sunday shows are at 2:30 p.m. The performances are in the small theatre at the Granville Arts Center, 300 North Fifth Street in downtown Garland.
‘You Can’t Take It with You’ is a comedic play in three acts (though we do it in two acts) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
The original production of the play premiered at the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia on Nov. 30, 1936. The production transferred to Broadway’s Booth Theatre Dec. 14, 1936, where it played for 838 performances.
The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it was adapted for the screen as ‘You Can’t Take It with You’ in 1938, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.
The story takes place entirely in the large house of a slightly odd New York City family. Various characters in the lives of the Vanderhof-Sycamore-Carmichael clan are followed through just a few crazy days of hilarity.
Description:
The family of Martin Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia University — but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa, as Martin is more commonly known, is the paterfamilias of a large and extended family of charming eccentrics. His granddaughter, Alice, is an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s idiosyncrasies. When Alice 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. But why be obsessed be money? After all, you can’t take it with you
Information from Wikipedia.
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