VTHS to present 'You Can't Take It With You'

Vernon — Vernon Township High School will present You Can’t Take It With You, the Pulitzer Prize winning play about a wacky family of snake collectors, revolutionaries, ballet dancers and skyrocket makers Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m.

A recent revival of the play on Broadway starred James Earl Jones as the philosophical grandfather, played by Steve Lohwin in the VTHS production.

Briefly, the play is about sweet-natured Alice Sycamore (played by Skylar Salamone) who falls for a banker's son, Tony Kirby (played by Dominick Gonzalez). But when she invites her snooty prospective in-laws to dinner to give their blessing to the marriage, Alice's peculiar extended family — including grandfather Martin Vanderhof (Lohwin), hapless fledgling ballerina sister Essie (played byCassie Roeloffs), painter-mother-turned-storyteller Penny (played by Shannon Rogers) and fireworks enthusiast father, Paul (played by Ethan Metz) — might be too eccentric for the staid, buttoned-up Kirbys (played by Elizabetta Bracer & Vincent Ventriglia).

Originally performed on Broadway in 1936, the basic truth that family can do crazy things to people proves to be timeless. Tickets for the show, which will be held in the high school auditorium, can be ordered through the link http://vths.seatyourself.biz.