You Can't Take It With You

2008

by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Directed by William Myatt

Director's Note

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   Our production concept for You Can’t Take It With You is a family photo album.  Not some digital slideshow you will see at graduation parties, but an old style album with black paper pages and photos turned a light chocolate color with age held to the paper with glue.  I looked back through a collection of my own family photos and found my mother, my aunt, and my grandparents outside the shack that was their home looking for all the world like some neighbor of the Joads.  I found a picture of my father-in-law (a wonderful man who I love dearly) at Mrs. Myatt’s and my wedding in his cowboy-style tux.  I also found a picture of Crazy Aunt Ruth.  She wasn’t really crazy and she was really my Great-Aunt.  Everyone has that one relative (or two) in his or her family who marches to the beat of a different drummer.  When I graduated from high school in 1979, Crazy Aunt Ruth and her red hair must have been around seventy years old.  Like any good graduate, I was tired of the family at my party and took three friends up a ladder into the attic of my A-frame garage to escape.  After twenty minutes or so of hiding out, I mean hanging out, with my friends, we heard someone else climbing the ladder.  Up pops the red hair of my seventy-year-old Crazy Aunt Ruth.  She starts chatting with us and all of a sudden grabs one of the rafters supporting the roof of the A-frame structure and starts doing chin-ups.  She was indeed happy being her own person.  I think she would have like the Vanderhof/Sycamore family and they would have liked her.  We hope you like them too and, perhaps, can find a way to march to your own drummer.

CAST

Martin Vanderhof (Grandpa) - Taylor Umland

Alice Sycamore - Kelsey Francis

Tony Kirby - Alex Tomesch

Penelope Sycamore - Samantha Pauly

Essie Carmichael - Hannah Kurth

Paul Sycamore - Cody Luebken

Ed Carmichael - Aaron Hewitt

Mr. Kirby - Spencer Hering

Mrs. Kirby - Lucille Carver

Boris Kolenkhov - Taylor Truster

Mr. DePinna - Morgan Hoke

Mr. Henderson - Tom Elsey

Gay Wellington - Kathleen Walter

Olga Katrina - Kelsey McCauley

Rheba - Regina Pauly

Donald - Alex Watson

The Man - Daniel Witcik

Mac - Kyle Woolums

Jim - Connor Quinby

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CREW

Technical Director - Mrs. Christina Myatt

Assistant Director - Ashley Daugherty

Stage Manager - Dani Grothus

Assistant Stage Manager - Emily Myers

Set Head - Linda Taylor

Assistant Set Head - Jenni Park

Lighting Designer - Connor Quinby

Sound Head - Tom McGee

Props Head - Jeff Ryder

Costume Designer - Mrs. Roya Francis

Costume Head - Katie Wall

Make-up Head - Rachael Wilkinson

Hair Head - Hannah Kurth

House Manager - Kyle Woolums

Set Construction Crew - Moira Sullivan, Alisha Saigal, Nick Schurr,

 Tom McGee, Molly Bryant and Barbara Ferancova

Sound Crew - Moira Sullivan

Lighting Crew - Emily Myers

Costume Crew - Kim Burken

Make-up Crew - Audrey Wiese, Jori Colarusso, Amy Bay, 

Kathleen Walter* and Bian Elkhatib

Hair Crew - Alex Skinner, Alyson Wennlund and Gretchen Gates