Upcoming Play! “You Can’t Take It With You”
“You Can’t Take It With You,” the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will be brought to the local stage by the Legacy Community Theatre the last two weekends of March.
Performance Dates:
March 19, 20, 26 & 27 – 7:30 p.m.
March 21 & 28 – 2:30 p.m.
This hilarious comedy, which received the Pulitzer Prize the year it opened in 1936, is one of the most popular plays presented in America, and has been made into a motion picture as well as a major television presentation.
The comedy centers around the Sycamores, a family who lives in a crazy world of individuals who go their own way. The head of the family, Grandpa Vanderhoff, walked away from a promising career thirty-five years earlier and now collects stamps and snakes, plays darts and visits zoos. His daughter writes plays because a typewriter was delivered to the house by mistake, and her husband makes fireworks in the basement. Their daughter is a ballet dancer who can’t dance and their son-in-law prints anything for a hobby.
The only “Normal” individual is their daughter, who works in an office and has fallen in love with the boss’s son. The fun begins when her boyfriend brings his staid family into this unique household for dinner. Thrown in to this mix are a Russian ballet teach, a Russian Grand Duchess, and Internal Revenue man, FBI agents, a maid and her boyfriend, and a man who came to deliver ice eight years ago and just stayed.
The play is set during the depression, but is anything but depressing. It speaks to what is really important in this life as the audience experiences the joys of this family, even under the most wild, confusing and trying circumstances.
Legacy Community Theatre has a major goal to bring family oriented theatre to the community. “You Can’t Take It With You” is the fifth major production since Legacy Theatre’s formation in 2007.
“You Can’t Take It With You” will be presented on the main stage of the Heritage Fellowship Church, located at 316 W. Old Andrew Johnson Highway in the West End Shopping Center. For reservations and ticket information, phone (865)471-0700.
The roles of Grandpa Vanderhoff are played by Dr. John Lee Welton, Professor Emeritus in Theatre from Carson-Newman College; his daughter, Penelope Sycamore, played by April Brown; her husband, Paul, played by Mark McConkey; their daughter Essie, played by Tara Oelrich; her husband Ed, is dual cast and played by Andrew Vanderford and Terry Owen.
The “normal” daughter, Alice, is played by MacKenzie Price Myers; her boyfriend, Tony, is played by Benjamin Myers; his father, Mr. Kirby is played by Bill Conrad and Mrs. Kirby is played by Tonnie Mason.
The cast is rounded out by Tom Hacker playing Mr. DePinna, the iceman; Scott Weisner playing the ballet teacher, Kolenkhov; Dr. Casey Moss playing the IRS; Kimberley McConkey playing Rheba, the maid; Don Douglas laying Donald, her boyfriend; Deborah Miller Playing a has-been actress; Peggy Horton Price playing the Grand Duchess Olga Katrina; Travis Oelrich and Jerrold Owen playing G-Men.
The production is under the direction of Peggy Horton Price.
