Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s whimsical Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play You Can’t Take It With You opens at Hubbard Hall on Friday, November 9, and runs weekends through November 25. Jeannine Haas directs this tour de force and is the same director who brought you last season’s smash hit Amadeus!
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof, a former businessman who has turned his back on commerce to enjoy life. At the Sycamores’ everyone does just what he or she pleases. Penny Sycamore, grandpa’s daughter, has become a novelist because someone delivered a typewriter to her home by mistake. Penny’s husband makes firecrackers in his basement with the help of Mr. DePinna, an iceman who showed up at the Sycamore doorstep one day and never left. Their daughter, Essie, imagines that she’s a prima ballerina even though her dour teacher, Boris, assesses her work with, “Confidentially, it steenks!” Essie’s husband, Ed, who’d rather play a xylophone than work, spends his free time selling Essie’s candy, wrapping each package in paper from a used printing press that dispenses anarchistic slogans. The one normal member of the household is Alice Sycamore, in love with wealthy Tony Kirby whose family, in contrast to these delightful people, are quite unhappy.
There is a pay what you will/open rehearsal on Thursday, November 8, at 7:30 pm. Opening night is Friday, November 9, at 8 pm. Shows continue on weekends throughout November, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm, closing on Sunday, November 25, at 2 pm. Tickets cost $25 for general admission, $22 for Hubbard Hall members and $15 for students and children. Tickets are available online at www.hubbardhall.org or by calling 518-677-2495.Hubbard Hall is located at 25 East Main Street in Cambridge, NY.