Viva Theater/Society for Creative Aging will present the outrageously funny Kaufman and Hart Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning “You Can’t Take It With You” as an old fashioned radio play. Veteran actor and director Steve Grad will direct the production. Storyline: the Sycamores are a zany, eccentric family whose hobbies include collecting snakes, making fireworks, writing plays that never get published and taking ballet lessons from a Russian wrestler. Enjoy the fireworks as the son of the straight-laced, hard-driving Kirby family and the daughter of the warm and wacky Sycamore clan fall in love. G-men, tax collectors, accountants, real estate moguls, judges, and policemen all fall under the spell of the warm life-affirming Sycamores. And so will you.
The 1938 film version of “You Can’t Take It With You”was named Best Picture of the Year. It featured Jean Arthur, Jimmy Stewart and Lionel Barrymore.
VIVA Theater, a part of The Society for Creative Aging, was founded in 2002 with the unique mission of providing opportunities for older adults to participate in theater. Now in its 15th year, VIVA mounts major productions in the spring and fall, takes theater On the Road throughout the year to retirement communities and Senior Centers, and offers ‘VIVA Presents’, monthly workshop meetings that are open to all. VIVA’s major production casts are usually intergenerational, giving young and old the chance to act together.
“You Can’t Take It With You” plays at the Dairy Center for the Arts, at 2590 Walnut Street in Boulder, on Friday, November 17 and 24 at 7:00 pm, Saturday, November 18 & 25 and Sunday November 26 at 2:00pm.
Tickets are $18 general, $15 for seniors, students and groups of 4 or more.
www.thedairy.org or (303) 444-7328. VIVA Theater: s4creativeaging.org