The Pulitzer Prize winning play: You Can’t Take it With You
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Friday, Oct 3, 2025 8pm - 10pm
Location
Longmont Performing Arts Center
Home of Longmont Theatre Company
(303) 772-5200
Details
Premium (preferred seats) and Regular ticket with discounts for Seniors/Military and Students/Active Military to the Pulitzer Prize winning play: You Can’t Take it With You. Also available, Season Passes and Group sales - call (303) 772-5200.
Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. Their hobbies include collecting snakes, building fireworks in the basement, writing a myriad of plays that never get published, and taking ballet lessons. Things like stress, jobs, and paying taxes don't exist in the Sycamore household!
That is, until daughter Alice announces her engagement to her boss's son, and he wants to bring his very stiff and proper parents over for dinner! This proper couple, the Kirbys, are the complete opposite of the Sycamores. While the Kirbys are wealthy, stuffy, and concerned with appearances, the Sycamores are poor (but they don't care), loopy, and they couldn't care less what anyone thinks of them.
Unfortunately for Alice, the Kirbys arrive at the house on the wrong night and witness the Sycamore family and their friends during an evening's typical antics, which include a visit from the Grand Duchess of Russia (now working as a waitress at a nearby restaurant), printing inappropriate sayings to put in boxes of candy, taking ballet lessons, and blowing things up in the basement. Things go from bad to worse when the FBI shows up to arrest Grandpa for not paying his taxes!
However, during the course of the crazy evening, Tony's father, the very unhappy Mr. Kirby, begins to see that the Sycamores may be on to something with their philosophy that we only go around once, and we should take the time to stop and smell the flowers along the way. The play's message is that happiness and love are the only things you really can take with you.
