You Can’t Take It With You extends to 22 Feb 2015

Producers of the Broadway revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize winning comedy You Can't Take It With You, starring James Earl Jones, have announced that the play has extended its limited engagement through to 22 February 2015.

The production opened at the Longacre Theatre on 28 September 2014, following previews from 26 August, to excellent reviews and was originally intending to close on 4 January 2015.

You Can't Take It With You follows "the Sycamores and the Kirbys - two completely different families whose worlds collide when their children become engaged. James Earl Jones plays Grandpa Vanderhof, leader of a happily eccentric gang of snake collectors, cunning revolutionaries, ballet dancers and skyrocket makers. As the youngest daughter brings her fiancé and his buttoned-up parents over for dinner, fireworks start to fly."

The cast of You Can't Take It With You includes James Earl Jones (Martin Vanderhof), Rose Byrne (Alice Sycamore), Elizabeth Ashley (The Grand Duchess Olga), Annaleigh Ashford (Essie Carmichael), Byron Jennings (Mr Kirby), Mark Linn-Baker (Paul Sycamore), Kristine Nielsen (Penelope Sycamore), Reg Rogers (Boris Kolenkhov), Crystal A. Dickinson (Rheba), Julie Halstonv (Gay Wellington), Marc Damon Johnson (Donald), Patrick Kerr (Mr De Pinna), Will Brill (Ed Carmichael), Fran Kranz (Tony Kirby), Johanna Day (Mrs Kirby) and Nick Corley, Austin Durant, and Joe Tapper as the three G-Men.

The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on 14 December 1936 and ran for 837 performances, taking home the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This production is being produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Dominion Pictures, Jay and Cindy Gutterman, Daryl Roth, Terry Schnuck, Jane Bergere, Caiola Productions, Rebecca Gold, LaRuffa Hinderliter, Gabrielle Palitz, Spisto & Kierstead, SunnySpot Productions, VenuWorks Theatricals, Jessica Genick and Will Trice.

You Can't Take It With You is directed by David Rockwell, with scenic design by David Rockwell, lighting by Donald Holder, costume by Jane Greenwood and sound by Jon Weston.

- by Tom Millward