You Can’t Take It With You

Winner! 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival of a Play Winner! 2015 Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Play Nominee: Five 2015 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Nominee: Two 2015 Drama Desk Awards

Grandpa Vanderhof lives “just around the corner from Columbia University – but don’t go looking for it.” Grandpa is the paterfamilias of an extended, loving and eccentric family which includes a daughter who fancies herself a romance novelist; her husband, an amateur fireworks expert; a xylophone player/leftist leaflet printer; an untalented ballerina; a couple on relief; and a ballet master exiled from Soviet Russia. When Grandpa’s granddaughter Alice, an attractive and loving girl who is still embarrassed by her family’s eccentricities, falls for her boss, Tony, a handsome scion of Wall Street, she fears that their two families – so unlike in manner, politics, and finances – will never come together. And that’s when the fireworks begin...

During a disastrous dinner party, Alice’s worst fears are confirmed. Her prospective in-laws are humiliated in a party game and the house is raided by the FBI. Frustrated and upset, Alice intends to run away to the country until Grandpa and Co. – playing the role of Cupid – manage not only to bring the happy couple together but also to set Tony’s father straight about the true priorities in life. After all, why be obsessed with money? You can’t take it with you…