You Can't Take It With You
November 15-17*, 2024 (Fri, Sat, Sun*)
November 21-23, 2024 (Thu, Fri, Sat)
Grand Opera House, Pierre, SD
Doors Open at 7 p.m., Performance at 7:30 p.m.
*Sunday Matinee Doors Open at 1:30 p.m., Performance at 2 p.m.
Tickets On Sale: November 4, 2024
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Preview Performance: November 13, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Preview tickets are $5 at the door.
Comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Directed by Alisa Bousa
Assistant Director Eileen Crandell
Synopsis: 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. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa’s interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn’t believe in the income tax.
Cast:
Martin Vanderhof (Grandpa): Robert Hudecek
Penny Sycamore: Amanda Demory
Paul Sycamore: Aaron Siebersma
Alice Sycamore: LaTrisha Pullman
Tony Kirby: AJ Holland
Essie Carmichael: Hannah Carda
Ed Carmichael: Blake Messegee
Rheba: Mandy Miiller
Donald: Scott Lee
Boris Kolenkhov: Bill McDonald
Mr. De Pinna: Del Bartels
Mr. Anthony P. Kirby: Mitch Honan
Mrs. Miriam Kirby: Michele Beeler
Wilbur C. Henderson: Kevin C. Kumpf
Gay Wellington: Cheyenne Tant
Grand Duchess Olga Katrina: Janet Martin/Alisa Bousa
Department of Justice Men: George Seamon, Marcus Seamon and Blake Tostenson
"You Can't Take It With You" is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.