BWW Flashback: A Sparkling Send-Off! YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Closes on Broadway

By: Feb. 22, 2015
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YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, the Pulitzer Prize-winning revival by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, marks its final performance this afternoon, February 22, 2015. It will have played for 208 performances at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. Below, BroadwayWorld takes you back through the revival's run on the Great White Way!

Directed by six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, the current cast includes James Earl Jones as Martin Vanderhof, Anna Chlumsky as Alice Sycamore, Elizabeth Ashley as The Grand Duchess Olga, Annaleigh Ashford as Essie Carmichael, Johanna Day as Mrs. Kirby, Julie Halston as Gay Wellington, Byron Jennings as Mr. Kirby, Patrick Kerr as Mr. De Pinna, Fran Kranz as Tony Kirby, Kristine Nielsen as Penelope Sycamore, Reg Rogers as Boris Kolenkhov, Richard Thomas as Paul Sycamore, Will Brill as Ed Carmichael, Nick Corley as a G-Man, Crystal A. Dickinson as Rheba, Austin Durant as a G-Man, Marc Damon Johnson as Donald, Karl Kenzler as Henderson, and Joe Tapper as a G-Man.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU features scenic design by David Rockwell (Kinky Boots, Hairspray), costume design by Jane Greenwood (Act One, Waiting for Godot), lighting design by Donald Holder (South Pacific, The Lion King), sound design by Jon Weston (The Bridges of Madison County), and hair and wig design by Tom Watson (Act One, Waiting for Godot). Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County, The Last Five Years, Parade) composed original music for the production.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WTIH YOU is about the Sycamores and the Kirbys -- two completely different families whose worlds collide when their children become engaged. The Sycamore family may seem like the mad ones with their galaxy of unique and zany characters, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder.

In April 2014, it was announced that an all-star revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's classic play YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, headed by Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, would arrive on Broadway that fall.

Soon after the announcement, the full company met the press in anticipation of YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU's first performance. BWW's Richard Ridge was on hand to chat with the actors - watch the interviews below!

The production also held feline auditions for the two kittens featured in the show!

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU began previews in August 2014. Take a look back at the cast in action (photos by Joan Marcus) at the Longacre below!

The production opened on September 28, 2014. Check out shots from the curtain call and interviews from the opening night party!

At the end of October, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU announced an extension! The show welcomed Anna Chlumsky and Richard Thomas to the cast in January this year to replace Rose Byrne and Mark Linn-Baker. See them in action below (photo by Joan Marcus)!

As the cast of YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU takes their final star-studded bows today, BroadwayWorld wishes the company a sparkling send-off!



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