You Can’t Take It With You
T
he fall play, You Can’t Take It With You, opened to
audiences November 29 on the Carlynton Junior-Senior
High School stage. The 1937 Pulitzer Prize-winning
play took viewers on a riotous course led by a talented
cast eager to portray the eclectic characters of the Vanderhof-
Sycamore-Carmichael clan.
The plot takes place entirely in the large house of an
unconventional New York City family. It includes the patriarch
of the family, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, a deliberate-thinker
who shelters snakes and has never paid taxes. His daughter
Penelope “Penny” Vanderhof Sycamore spends her days writing
adventure-filled melodramas and is married to Paul Sycamore,
an eccentric fellow who manufactures fireworks in the
basement of the home with the help of an assistant,
Mr. De Pinna.
Paul and Penny have two daughters. Essie Sycamore
Carmichael makes candy for a living but dreams of becoming a
ballerina, even though she has no talent. Essie is married to Ed
Carmichael, a xylophone player who prints catchy phrases and
encloses them within the packaging of Essie’s candies before
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