You Can't Take It With You
You Can’t Take It With You
By Moss Hart and George S Kaufman
Presented by The CUAA Theatre Department
Performances: November 1 & 2 at 7:00 pm and November 2 & 3 at 2:00 pm
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $0 Free for CUAA Students/Faculty/Staff
Duration: 2 hrs (And 15 min Intermission)
Appropriate for all ages!
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SUMMARY
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 by money? After all, you can’t take it with you...
HISTORY
You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on December 14, 1936. A smash hit, the show ran for 838 performances and returned to Broadway five times, most recently in 2014. That production, directed by Scott Ellis, earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress for Annaleigh Ashford as Essie.
“One of the most persuasive works of pure escapism in Broadway history.” – The New York Times
“It's an over-the-top, old-fashioned comedy and feel-good crowd-pleaser.” – AM New York
“Naïveté is this show’s oxygen and its strongest selling point, and Hart and Kaufman conjured it with master craftsmen’s shrewdness. A portrait of tax-dodging, rule-defying, work-evading, goodhearted folk who live only to please themselves and suffer no serious consequences, You Can’t Take It With You is one of the most persuasive works of pure escapism in Broadway history.” – The New York Times
ACCOLADES
- Winner! 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Winner! 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival of a Play
- Winner! 2015 Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Play
- Nominee: Five 2015 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play
- Nominee: Two 2015 Drama Desk Awards
"YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (
You Can’t Take It With You
By Moss Hart and George S Kaufman
Presented by The CUAA Theatre Department
Performances: November 1 & 2 at 7:00 pm and November 2 & 3 at 2:00 pm
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $0 Free for CUAA Students/Faculty/Staff
Duration: 2 hrs (And 15 min Intermission)
Appropriate for all ages!
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SUMMARY
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 by money? After all, you can’t take it with you...
HISTORY
You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on December 14, 1936. A smash hit, the show ran for 838 performances and returned to Broadway five times, most recently in 2014. That production, directed by Scott Ellis, earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress for Annaleigh Ashford as Essie.
“One of the most persuasive works of pure escapism in Broadway history.” – The New York Times
“It's an over-the-top, old-fashioned comedy and feel-good crowd-pleaser.” – AM New York
“Naïveté is this show’s oxygen and its strongest selling point, and Hart and Kaufman conjured it with master craftsmen’s shrewdness. A portrait of tax-dodging, rule-defying, work-evading, goodhearted folk who live only to please themselves and suffer no serious consequences, You Can’t Take It With You is one of the most persuasive works of pure escapism in Broadway history.” – The New York Times
ACCOLADES
- Winner! 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Winner! 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival of a Play
- Winner! 2015 Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Play
- Nominee: Five 2015 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play
- Nominee: Two 2015 Drama Desk Awards
"YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (