'You Can't Take It With You' this weekend at Monroe High School

The Monroe News
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The cast of "You Can't Take It With You" at Monroe High School is shown. The show opens Friday.
The cast of "You Can't Take It With You" at Monroe High School is shown. The show opens Friday.

The Monroe High School Drama Club will stage its spring play, “You Can’t Take It With You,” this weekend.

Performances will begin at 7 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Monroe High School Auditorium. Tickets will be sold at the door for $10 for adults, $5 for students and $8 for senior citizens. Doors will open one hour before curtain.

The award-winning comedy was written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. It premiered in 1936 and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The film adaptation won two Oscars in 1938 including Best Picture.

“You Can’t Take It With You” features Alice Sycamore, who works as a bank secretary is reluctant to marry her boss, Tony Kirby, because she knows their families are very different. She agrees to host a dinner party and asks her extended family, the unconventional Vanderhof-Sycamore clan, to be on their best behavior to meet her potential in-laws.

Chaos ensues when the straight-laced, prim and proper, well-to-do Kirbys arrive an evening earlier than planned.

A scene from "You Can't Take It With You" is shown.
A scene from "You Can't Take It With You" is shown.

The lead characters of Alice Sycamore and Tony Kirby are portrayed by freshman Alice Hause and sophomore Ben Wilson.

The 19-member also cast includes Gabby Forrester (as Penelope Sycamore), Bailey Baker (Essie Carmichael), Samantha Eby (Rheba), Keegan Schmitt (Paul Sycamore), Addison Chaffin (Mr. DePinna), Virgil Braun (Ed Carmichael), Ever Smith (Donald), Stephen Ortiz (Martin Vanderhof), Brandon Miller (Wilber Henderson), Nolan Livingston (Boris Kolenkhov), Jillian Gorman (Gay Wellington), Mathieu Grenn (Mr. Kirby), Claire DeLoach (Mrs. Kirby), Em Holland (The Man), Jolie Boudrie (Mac), Rayyan Peracha (Jim) and Aubrey Fremion (Olga Katrina).

The spring play is under the direction of Jeremy Kimberlin. Rebecca Molenda is in charge of production design. Both are faculty in the Language Arts Department.

Production assistance is provided by junior Presley Bray, student assistant director; junior Charlotte Yesnach, sound technician; senior Kai Carradine, light technician; sophomore Kendall Ruman, student stage manager; and sophomore Zachary Kemp, prop master.

The stage crew includes Addi Bressler, Rylee Evans, Vanessa HernandezCamacho, Mackenzie Lockhart, Abby Macleod, Bailey Martinez, Brianna Martinez, Gabrielle Stewart, Breanna Turner and Owen White.

“The light-hearted show is filled with fun and antics but delivers a timeless and inspiring message: Life is short and best spent doing the things we love with the people we love,” MHS said.

This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: 'You Can't Take It With You' March 10-12 at Monroe High School