Stageworks Presents You Can't Take It With You

Grandpa Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia University – but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa is the patriarch of an extended, loving and eccentric family which includes a daughter who fancies herself a romance novelist; her husband, an amateur fireworks expert; a marimba player/leftist leaflet printer; an untalented ballerina; a couple on relief; and a ballet master exiled from Soviet Russia. When Grandpa’s granddaughter Alice, an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s eccentricities, falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two families – so unlike in manner, politics, and finances – will never come together. And that’s when the fireworks begin.. 

You Can’t Take It With You opened on December 14, 1936, at the Booth Theater and ran 838 performances, a phenomenal number back in the 1930s. In 1937 it went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, one of a handful of comedies ever to do so.