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You Can't Take It With You

1965
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About You Can't Take It With You

About the play

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You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play premiered at the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia, on November 30, 1936. The production then transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre on December 14, 1936, where it played for 838 performances.

The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was adapted for the screen as You Can't Take It with You in 1938, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

The play is popular among theater programs of high school institutions, and has been one of the 10 most-produced school plays every year since amateur rights became available in 1939

About this production

Joan is working with one of the biggest casts that she has yet worked with and knowing the standard of Joan’s work theatre members and friends will be given a really enjoyable evening.  We wish this huge cast every success, especially when they carry through to enter in South Street competition this year.  It will be much more strenuous than last year; we hope they again might be able to attain the ‘laurels’.

Joan has an excellent cast.  Many well-known names and lots of new ones.  Marjorie Ford, Pam Skinner, Mary Macleod, Ros. White, Rees Irvin, Barbara Fraser, Di Vernon, Roy Thomson, Geoff O’Donnell being some of the names known to theatre members and hosts of new names including Rory Macleod, Gavin Schwartz, Jeff Morrison, Charles Crompton, Ian Page (who has done much for us in set design in the past), Laurie Burrows, Barbara Carlton, Bull Drury and Bernard Lakerink.

Set Design by Maureen Boon – a feast of wit and talent – make sure and book early to save disappointment.

Aug 20 - 28, 1965

  • The Little Theatre

  • Genre: Comedy

  • Playwright: George S. Kaufman

  • Director: Joan Crompton

Cast

Marjorie Ford

Pam Skinner

Mary Macleod

Ros. White

Rees Irvin

Barbara Fraser

Di Vernon

Roy Thomson

Geoff O’Donnell

Rory Macleod

Gavin Schwartz

Jeff Morrison

Charles Crompton

Ian Page

Laurie Burrows

Barbara Carlton

Bull Drury

Bernard Lakerink

Crew

  • Director
    Joan Crompton
  • Stage Manager
    Jan. Carter
  • Costume Design and Coordination
    Pam Skinner
  • Sound
    Albert Dulfer, Mary Macleod (assistant)
  • Lighting
    Geoff. Simmonds, Gordon Henderson (assistant)
  • Props
    Stephen Stickland, Margaret Baker
  • Marketing
    Ros. White
  • Graphic Design
    Don Fraser (Poster)
  • Program Design
    Charles Crompton
  • Photography
    Basil Dawson
  • Set Construction
    Bob Sainsbury, Stephen Stickland, Mary Macleod, Roy Thompson, Glenys Jones, Laurie Burrows, Eleanor Burrows, Jeff Morison, Ian Page, Ken Crompton, Pam Skinner, Ron Lancaster, Bernard Lakerink
  • Hair
    Connie Russo, Jean Thompson, Jeff Rutley
  • All-round Crew
    Glenys Jones, Eileen Shannon, Stephen Stickland
  • Foyer Stall
    Marjorie Drew
  • Xylophone

    Ron Lewis

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