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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

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.