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Subject. Genre. Comedy. Setting. New York City at the home of Martin Vanderhof, 1936. 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. [1]
Synopsis. Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy.
A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE. You Can't Take It With You. Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w, 9m, 3any gender (adult) Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman. One of the most popular and successful plays of modern times, You Can't Take It With You is Kaufman and Hart's hilarious, delightful portrait of a charmingly eccentric family.
You Can’t Take It with You opened in New York in December of 1936 to instant critical and popular acclaim. This depiction of a delightfully eccentric family, the third collaboration by playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, proved to be their most successful and and longest-running work.
Shows. You Can't Take It With You. Writers: Moss Hart George S. Kaufman. Context. When You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway on December 14, 1936 it was an instant hit. It eventually played 838 performances on Broadway and earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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You Can’t Take It with You, winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize, is a classic American stage comedy that deftly blends elements of farce, slapstick, whimsical humor, social commentary,...
Synopsis: You Can't Take It with You. The Vanderhof family at the center of You Can’t Take It with You is a collection of cheerful and erratic (yet lovable) incompetents. First, there’s Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, the salty and philosophical patriarch of this wacky family and a man who made his peace with the world, if not the Internal ...
