Winter play
On February 26th and 27th Lincoln-Way Central will be putting on its 2016 winter play, You Can’t Take It With You.
The comedic play follows the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Ben Davis), a former businessman who left his job to enjoy life more. At the Sycamores’, everyone just does what they please. Penny Sycamore (Riley McLaughlin), Grandpa’s daughter, has become a novelist because someone delivered a typewriter to her home by mistake. Penny’s husband, Paul (Brendan Glennon), makes firecrackers in his basement with the help of Mr. De Pinna (Dylan Humiston), an iceman who showed up at the Sycamore doorstep one day and never left. Their older daughter, Essie (Kyla Egizio), imagines that she’s a prima ballerina, even though her Russian dance teacher, Boris Kolenkov (AJ Minetti), assesses her work with, “Confidentially, it stinks!” Essie’s husband, Ed (Nick Boeckman), who’d rather play a xylophone than work, spends his free time selling Essie’s candy, wrapping each package in paper from a used printing press which he’s branded with unintentionally anarchistic slogans. The family’s maid, Rheba (Kamarie Gerring) and her boyfriend Donald (Thomas Erhardt) do nothing to add any sense of normalcy to the environment with their quirks. The only normal member of the household is Alice Sycamore (Amy Zajac), who’s in love with wealthy Tony Kirby (Tom Cook). Naturally, when the stuffy, rich, and aristocratic Kirbys (Bella Hernandez and Zak Dundek) come to the Sycamores’ for dinner, the event is a disaster. The ending of the show is shocking, funny, and heartwarming. The show also features appearances made by other characters played by Jacob Tolbert, Mary Zoph, Sarah Walton, Amanda Ryan, Julia Tolbert, MaKayla Dundek, and Courtney Weigal.
The play, which premiered on Broadway in 1936 actually won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was made into a movie in 1938, which won two Academy Awards. It’s surely going to be excellently executed by Central’s cast; it’s not a performance to miss!
