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‘You Can’t Take It With You’
By Sally Boswell
Published November 13, 2009
Paris High School’s Department of Theater Arts takes to the boards tonight with a production of the perennially funny “You Can’t Take It With You,” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.
If the Sycamore Family is mad, then the rest of the world is madder still. In every room of the Sycamore home, something wonderful and unusual is going on — radical politics in the kitchen, fireworks manufacturing in the basement, ballet dancing and oil painting side by side in the parlor.
Enter Tony Kirby, himself madly in love with young Alice Sycamore and more than ready to embrace her family’s eccentricities as well. But when his strict and straitlaced parents come to meet the family of this potential daughter-in-law, the elder Kirbys are shocked and Alice is forced to confront the possibility that she might not be the right wife for Tony.
Can Tony keep Alice from breaking off their engagement? Can his parents be brought to accept the Sycamores’ happy madness? Can Grandpa stay out of hot water with the dreaded IRS?
Cast members include Shannon Burrows as Penny, Leah Brooks as Essie, Ashleigh Hensley as Rheba, Casey Epperson as Paul, Lulu Safi as Mr. Di Penna, Basel Musharbash as Ed, Andrew Carroll as Donald, Zach Kirbey as Martin Vanderhof and Kelsey McLaughlin as Henderson.
Jessica Bazhaw plays Alice Sycamore and Jordan Abby plays Tony Kirby.
Other cast members include Drew Ruthart as Boris Kolenkhov; Jadielle Ray as Gay Wellington; Jonathan Crawford and Paige Attebury as Mr. and Mrs. Kirby; Ana Pardiwalla, Juan Hernandez and Kelsey McLaughlin as FBI agents; Baelye Grissom as the Grand Duchess and Elphie as Groucho.
Crew members for “You Can’t Take it With You” include Sharon Gonzalez and Jayna Shull, directors; Hannah Bass, stage manager; Tawny Bells, assistant stage manager; Raven Bells, assistant director; Joy White, technical director; Justin Sills and Sarah Siemons, properties; Paul Clegg, sound; Brianna Gaffney, lighting; Luz Luna and Tynia Porter, costumes; Maria Shomo, Kathy Carias and Lorena Perez; makeup; and Alex Stallings, Alex Crate, Tawny Bells, Joy White, Dylan Cathey, Hannah Bass, Zach Wickes, Jerred Guerra, Joe Dickey, Sarah Rose, Jermecia Sims, Kenyon Hummel, Ellen Temple, Paige Attebury and David LaRue, construction.
Showtimes for “You Can’t Take it With You,” are 7:30 p.m. today and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $5, available at the door of Weger Auditorium on the Paris High School campus, 2400 Jefferson Road.
“You Can’t Take it With You” is produced by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service.
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