About This Production
Welcome to the Sycamore home, where someone is always writing a play, practicing ballet, making candy, printing mysterious documents, collecting snakes, or setting off fireworks in the basement.
Into this cheerful household comes Alice Sycamore, who has fallen in love with Tony Kirby. When their very proper families meet for dinner on entirely the wrong night, every attempt at respectability collapses in spectacular fashion. PaperMap’s production brings this large, gloriously eccentric family together just a few feet from the audience. Seasoned performers and first-time actors will share the stage, creating a home that feels crowded, unpredictable, and completely alive.
You Can’t Take It With You is a joyful American comedy about family, freedom, and deciding what really matters while there is still time to enjoy it. Come for the fireworks. Leave wishing you could stay for dinner.
Cast List
Kelly Baksh ✧ Penny Sycamore
Clint Vardaman ✧ Paul Sycamore
Charlene Juvida ✧ Essie Carmichael
Adam Link ✧ Ed Carmichael
Zoey Akers ✧ Alice Sycamore
Tom Limbacher ✧ Martin Vanderhof (Grandpa)
Olivia Merkley ✧ Rheba
Samuel Alexman ✧ Donald
Anthony Arritola ✧ Mr. De Pinna
Jordan Arnold ✧ Boris Kolenkhov
Natalie Jordan ✧ Gay Wellington
Cheryl Donovan ✧ Olga Katrina, the Grand Duchess
Ethan Hoyt ✧ Tony Kirby
Andrew Scuderi ✧ Mr. Anthony Kirby
Brittany Murphy ✧ Mrs. Kirby
Jade Rivera ✧ M. Henderson
Isabella Orne and Raegan Wilson ✧ The G-Men
Creative Team
Richie Akers ✧ Director & Designer
Matthew Vickery ✧ Assistant Director
✧ Why This Story?
We chose You Can’t Take It With You because it celebrates people who refuse to measure a good life by anyone else’s rules.
The Sycamores may look eccentric from the outside, but their home is built on something wonderfully solid. People are encouraged to follow what interests them, welcomed without suspicion, and loved without being asked to become more conventional first. That feels deeply PaperMap. This is a play all about the joy of making things together, the courage to be yourself, and the kind of community that grows when everyone is given permission to belong.
Most of all, we chose it because it is tremendously funny. It offers audiences an evening of warmth, joyful chaos, and the happy reminder that the richest life may be the one filled with people rather than possessions.
