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You can’t take it with you, performed at Laguna Hills High school on November 11, 2017. This school performance was directed by the one and only Mrs. Belfield. The theme was, that you should enjoy life and do things that make you happy and that families can come together even besides their differences. Overall I think this was an amazing play. I enjoyed the inappropriate humor and how the characters were portrayed.
The basis of the show is about a very upbeat loving family and they are very different from the average one. This girl named Alice Sycamore falls in love with a guy named Tony Kirby and his family is quite the opposite of hers. Alice is afraid that she can’t be with Tony because their families are so very different. Penelope …show more content…

Sycamore's paintings. Ed Carmichael, Jacob Tapia, husband of Essie, son-in-law of Paul and Penny. He is a xylophone player, and sells Essie's candies. Ed is an printer who prints anything that sounds catchy. He prints up dinner menus for his family and little quotes that he places in the boxes of Essie's candy. Martin Vanderhof, Cole Shalauta, who is called Grandpa in the play and is the father-in-law to Paul, father of Penny, and grandfather of Alice and Essie. He is a happy old man who has never paid his income tax because he doesn't believe in it. He was once a very successful businessman, he left his job for no reason other than to just relax. He enjoys throwing darts, and collecting snakes. Rheba, Lani Jacobson, is the maid and cook to the Sycamore family. She is treated almost like a part of the family. She is dating Donald. Donald, Jose Dominguez, the boyfriend of Rheba, who seems to serve as volunteer handyman for the Sycamores. Boris Kolenkhov, Seth Whiteaker, a Russian who escaped to America shortly before the Russian Revolution. He is the ballet instructor of Essie, and is very aware that she is untalented at dancing, but knows that she enjoys dancing so he keeps working with her. After you have met the crazy, loving family, we must introduce the normal family, the Kirby’s. Tony Kirby, Ethan Ervais, fiancé of Alice, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby. Sees how, even though the Sycamores appear odd, that they are really the perfect

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