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Radnor Actors Workshop
proudly presents
You Can’t Take It With You
You Can’t Take It With You, a 1930s classic comedy by Kauffman and Hart. It recently enjoyed a revival on Broadway, starring James Earl Jones. 19 students in the cast and 25 students in the stage crew and art club are busy bringing this play to life, and we hope you will join us for some good laughs. The play runs Thursday, November 21st; Friday, November 22nd; and Saturday, November 23rd at 7:00 PM in the RHS Auditorium. Tickets will be available online at a discount beginning November 1st, and will be available for regular price at the door. The play is three acts, runs about 2 hours, and is rated PG."
You Can’t Take It With You is a zany, idealistic comedy that reinforces the idea that you can only live life to the fullest by doing whatever makes you happy.
It is 1933 - Grandpa Vanderhof (12th grader Aidan Moore) and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons - in the living room. Things like stress, jobs, and paying taxes to the government are for other people, not for them.
But - when practical young Alice Sycamore (12th grader Amia Korman) becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby (12th grader Dylan Roche), the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws. Disaster ensues when the Kirbys arrive for dinner on the wrong date and, despite the best laid plans, see Alice’s family in all of its crazy glory. The evening ends with everyone in the house getting arrested, and Alice ending the engagement. It isn’t until Grandpa’s wise words to Mr. Kirby (12th grader Aidan Giacomucci) about the importance of living life to the fullest that the two families find a way to accept each other, and love conquers all.