A Moss Hart and
George S. Kaufman comedy
Silverton High School Theater
802 Schlador St.
7 p.m. Nov. 7, 8, 13,
14 and 15 and
2 p.m. Nov. 9
Tickets: Students and
senior citizens
$3 and adults $5,
available at the door.
By Kathy Cook Hunter
You Can’t Take It with You, a madcap comedy and a favorite of Silverton High School drama teacher-director Doug Osterhaut, will be presented this month at Silverton High School.
Chaotic from beginning to end, the story tells of two New York City families in the 1930s.
Young Alice Sycamore (Briana Bledsoe) and Tony Kirby (Joseph Laroniov) fall in love despite coming from very different backgrounds.
The sharp contrasts of the large, eccentric-but-happy Sycamore clan and the stuck-up, traditional, unhappy Kirbys are made obvious when Tony’s parents are invited to dinner at the Sycamore home, the setting of the play.
A grandfather who refuses to pay his income taxes, a father who manufactures fireworks in the basement, an I.R.S. investigator, an aspiring ballerina, a Wall Street worker who hates his job and a “proper” woman who is interested in spiritualism are just a few of the 19 characters in the play.
Federal agents overrunning the house, dynamite, a lively free-association parlor game and the ups and downs of romance only add to the fun.
You Can’t Take It with You won the Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for its playwrights Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
The play was one of the longest-running Broadway shows (837 performances) of its time and is called the forerunner of many of today’s TV sit-coms.
Osterhaut said he considers it “one of the classics.
“I figured it would be the best one for our last year at the old theater” at the SHS Schlador Street campus.
Cast members include: Haley Karlson, Hallie Day, Amber Barnard, Casey Magis-Agosta, Josia Muhr, Athan Lewis, Raven Herring, Carson States, Micah Knaus, Jacob Andvik, Alex Jones, Jacob Anderson, Casey Hatley, Lacey Carlson, Nick Garrett, Kody Shippy, Gavin Knox and Jake Palmer.
