![]() Kirby (Scotty Cherryholmes), Tony's father, has attained financial success and a position of social and economic power. ![]() All goes well, until Granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Adrienne Morton) falls in love with her boss's son, Tony Kirby (Ryan Stevens), thereby bringing into contact two distinctly different versions of the American Dream."įitz-Simons says, "Mr. Hall), who has created a modified 'Utopian-Society-in-Microcosm' for his immediate family and a few 'outsiders' lucky enough to be included in the family circle. "The title of the play pretty much embodies the 'Life Philosophy' of Grandpa Vanderhof (John T. "This is a comedy of manners with a message," he claims. Haskell Fitz-Simons describes the convoluted plot of this classic comedy as follows. "The cast includes a number of positively delicious smaller 'cameo' roles: a temperamental IRS Man a disenfranchised Russian Countess a dipsomaniacal actress a trio of belligerent G-Men." "Weighing in at 19 cast members, You Can't Take It with You is about par for the course," Fitz-Simons says. Kaufman and Hart became known for their comedies with HUGE casts. When this show was first produced (during the Depression), it was much easier to cast shows with large casts. Both were wonderful!"įitz-Simons says, "I love the ensemble of characters that make up the cast of this show. Another televised production starred Jason Robards as Grandpa with Elizabeth Wilson as Penny. One starred Art Carney as Grandpa and Jean Stapleton as Penny with Blythe Danner as Alice. I also remember seeing televised productions of the play. He adds, "Later, I saw the rather bizarre movie made by Frank Capra - very different from the play. ![]() I remember when the curtain went up, the audience gave the wonderfully eccentric set applause and the two kittens got frightened and took refuge in the hair of the actress playing Penny!" "I first saw this play as a youngster," says Haskell Fitz-Simons, "in a production by the Carolina Playmakers in Chapel Hill. The plot focuses on the hilarious confrontations that occur when the handsome son of the hopelessly uptight Kirby family falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the wildly eccentric Sycamore family. His sprawling residence is also home to his high-spirited family (the zany Sycamore clan!) and his extended family of certified (and, sometimes, certifiable) eccentrics. "Grandpa" Vanderhof is real character: a genuine freethinker who has permanently retired from the rat race. You Can't Take It with You is set in the expansive living room and dining room of Martin Vanderhof's upper West Side Manhattan townhouse. The 1938 motion-picture version of You Can't Take It with You, adapted for the silver screen by Robert Riskin and produced and directed by Frank Capra, received seven Academy Award® nominations and won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. 14, 1936 at the Booth Theatre, ran for 837 performances, and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Longtime RLT artistic director Haskell Fitz-Simons will direct this vintage Kaufman and Hart screwball comedy, which made its Broadway debut on Dec. Kaufman's marvelous madcap comedy You Can't Take It with You Oct. Raleigh Little Theatre will present Moss Hart and George S.
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