Performers Needed for "You Can't Take It With You" Play
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Searching for performers for "You Can't Take It With You" play. See the details below. About the play: "You Can’t Take it with You" is the epitome of the Situation Comedy. Kaufman and Hart created the Vanderhof/Sycamore Family who live their lives in a wonderful, creative world of constant improvisation – Yes, And! A typewriter arrives and plays are written. People enter their home and stay – why not! Living near Columbia University, Martin Vanderhof, Grandpa, visits Commencement Ceremonies, listening to speeches, watching the graduates, and feeling glad that he is not young anymore. Additional information: Performance Times and Location April 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 18, 2025 at 8 p.m. April 6, 13 and 19, 2025 at 2 p.m. Venue: Scarborough. Callbacks (if required) Sunday, January 26, 2025 from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. If you are auditioning, please keep this date open until advised otherwise. Please be prepared to be available for the full four hours. Callbacks will consist of scenes from the show. Directors ask that you be available for the full time. If callbacks are not required, Sunday, January 26 will be the first read through of the play. Please prepare a short comedic monologue – no more than 90 seconds. Something you know well. Be prepared to be re-directed. Auditions are booked in 10-minute slots. If you're interested, please apply.
17 roles
A delightful woman – bright colourful, loving, caring, creative and smart. Willing to try things, embraces the lifestyle created by her father. Loves her children, her husband, her father. She has “the divine urge”.
Needs to dance always and not particularly well. Penny’s oldest daughter. Married to Ed. Wants desperately to become a ballet dancer, she never will but tries and tries. Her real gift is candy making.
The maid. She happily does her duties as she is happy living there. Always gets paid. Is treated as part of the family. Dates Donald.
Sharing a kiss with Tony Kirby. Truly, madly, deeply in love with Tony Kirby. As much as she tries to be normal, her true charm lies in the fact that she is loved her parents and grandpa and living in the house. She is lovely and bright.
An actress brought home by Penny. Enjoys the occasional bottle of whatever. Perhaps she will stay on. Age is uncertain and certainly disguised. A fun physical role.
Tony’s mother, married to Mr. Kirby. Has accepted her role as Long Island Matron but desires more. She is into spiritualism.
Russian accent needed. An ex-patriot Russian Duchess, cousin to the dead Czar. Friend to Kolenkhov, Essie’s dance teacher. Enjoys the idea of a free family meal but will make blintzes when needed. She is delightful considering all that she has survived.
A very nice man who designs fireworks in his basement. He studied to be an architect and now builds things with Meccano.
Needs to feel comfortable wearing a toga. A boarder with the Sycamores. Also, a fireworks designer. Came to the Vanderhof/Sycamore home and never left.
Paul and Penny’s son-in-law, married to Essie. Also came to the Vanderhof/sycamore home and never left. Enjoys playing the xylophone and printing slogans.
Boyfriend to Rheba. Happy to help Rheba and the family – catches flies etc. to feed the snakes. Is out of work - The Depression – but currently likes receiving assistance to working as any money earned is clawed-back. Similar age as Rheba.
The patriarch of the family. Quit his Wall Street job 30 years ago. Enjoys tending to his snakes and attending commencements at nearby Columbia University. He does have privilege – he has his large home and investments that keep the home running.
Sharing a kiss with Alice Sycamore. A thoughtful, caring young man who happens to be the boss’s son – he wants a different life than his father. He is truly, madly, deeply in love with Alice Sycamore and wants to marry her.
Russian accent needed. Essie’s Russian Dance teacher- he knows Essie will never be a dancer. Would have liked to be like Nijinsky – escaped the Russian Revolution. Always manages to give Essie her lesson near dinner time. Loves this family – they are his family now . Physical and strong.
Tony’s father, the boss. Mr. Wall Street. Raises orchids for fun. Repressed and unhappy.
IRS man who tries to find out why Martin Vanderhof has not paid income tax ever. Officious, but confused as Grandpa is not worried or frightened by a government official
The G men who have been following Ed for his revolutionary slogans. They arrest everyone present in the home including the Kirby’s. They are confused but officious – doing their job.
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