You Can’t Take It With You 2024 Playbill

Cast of Characters

PENELOPE “PENNY” SYCAMORE – Ciara Schweigert

ESSIE – Charlotte Swartout

RHEBA – Jenessa Rose

PAUL SYCAMORE – Morgan Matlock

MR. DE PINNA – Samantha Demcak

ED – Nathan Sax

DONALD – Kyle Mershon

MARTIN “GRANDPA” VANDERHOF – Alice Giles

ALICE – Delaney Hagfeldt

HENDERSON – Clara Mellinger

TONY KIRBY – Benjamin Miller

BORIS KOLENKHOV – Sophie NewMyer

GAY WELLINGTON – Isabelle Moon

MR. KIRBY – Harrison Whiteley-Ross

MRS. KIRBY – Anja Lindgren

THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA KATRINA – Macy NewMyer

G-MEN – Charlie Page, Allie Edinger, Lillian Renard

SWINGS – Cosette Duckett (Kirby, Donald, Kolenkhov), Isaac Norris (Tony, Paul, Ed), Ellise Newton (Penny, Rheba, G-Men), Sophie Fletcher (Gay, Alice, Olga), Kiara Valladares (Mrs. Kirby, Henderson, DePinna), Lillian Renard (Grandpa), Allie Edinger (Essie)

Scene List and Synopsis

The scene is the home of Martin Vanderhof, New York

Act I – A Wednesday evening.

Act II – A week later.

Act III – The next day.

One of the most popular and successful plays of modern times, You Can’t Take It With You is a hilarious, delightful portrait of a charmingly eccentric family. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. But when practical young Alice Sycamore becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws.

Production Team

Director – Joe Dalton

Technical Director – Kristen Hartman

Choreography – Tara Porter and Charlotte Swartout

Stage Manager – Ethan Quirie

Assistant Stage Manger – Grace Hoffman

Tech Crew – August Hartman, Jack Fairman, Mae Svenson, Kayleigh Olson, Lauren Branine

Technical Director Understudy – Shannon Miller

Set Construction – Robert Eli Taylor

Set Painting & Prop Assembly – Tech Crew

Costuming – Michelle Crosby, Claire Newton

Glam – Pamela Whitchurch, Rana Kaddumi, Izzy Garland, El Strausbaugh

House Manager, Booster President – Ambria Newton

Box Office – Lisa Swartout

Photography – Jeff Peters

Videography – Corbin Anderson and SHS Video Production Club

Special thanks to the Performing Arts Boosters and Families! And thank you to Adam Mitchell, Katie Voss, and SHS Administration and district office! We appreciate you!