To carry over the holiday spirit into the new year, cast members from the You Can't Take It With You Pulitzer Prize-winning revival by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman will be volunteering their time and working as a group at God's Love We Deliver. The cast will be helping prepare meals in the kitchen on Tuesday, January 20th for a three-hour afternoon shift.
God's Love We Deliver is the New York City metropolitan area's leading provider of nutritious, individually-tailored meals to people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Founded in 1985 when one woman began delivering food on her bicycle to a man dying from AIDS, God's Love now cooks 5,000 meals each weekday, delivering them to clients living with life-altering illnesses in all five boroughs of New York City, Newark and Hudson County, New Jersey. All of our services are provided free of charge to our clients, their children and to the senior caregivers of our senior clients, without regard to income, and we have never maintained a waiting list. Because we believe the combination of hunger and serious illness is a crisis, we deliver food within 24 - 48 hours of first being contacted. Visit www.glwd.org for more information.
With over 26,000 meals delivered each week, the kitchen staff relies on volunteers to help prepare these meals for over 2,600 clients. Some of the tasks that the You Can't Take It With You cast may be doing include chopping onions, wrapping rolls, peeling potatoes and making meatballs.
You Can't Take It With You recently welcomed Emmy Award-nominated TV and film star Anna Chlumsky ("Veep", My Girl) and Emmy Award-winning screen and stage star Richard Thomas ("The Waltons", "The Americans", Race) who took over the roles of Alice Sycamore and Paul Sycamore, respectively on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015.
While Anna Chlumsky is making Broadway debut in this role, Richard Thomas is reuniting with James Earl Jones who last appeared on stage together in their Broadway debuts in 1958's Sunrise at Campobello when Thomas was seven.
You Can't Take It With You began previews on Tuesday, August 26th, 2014, opened on Sunday, September 28th, 2014 at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) and extended its initial limited run to Sunday, February 22nd 2015. Tickets are sold on Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.
The production is directed by six-time Tony Award nominee
Scott Ellis (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Curtains, 1776).
Anna Chlumsky and
Richard Thomas joined the cast on Tuesday, January 6th joining Tony Award and Outer Critics' Circle winner
James Earl Jones (
Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Fences, The Great White Hope) as Martin Vanderhof, Tony Award winner
Elizabeth Ashley (Take Her, She's Mine, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Gore Vidal's The Best Man) as The Grand Duchess Olga, Tony Award nominee
Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, Wicked, "Masters of Sex") as Essie Carmichael, Tony Award nominee
Johanna Day (Proof, August: Osage County) as Mrs. Kirby, three-time Drama Desk nominee
Julie Halston (Anything Goes, The Divine Sister) as Gay Wellington,
Byron Jennings (The Merchant of Venice, Inherit the Wind) as Mr. Kirby,
Patrick Kerr (Stage Kiss, The Ritz) as Mr. De Pinna,
Fran Kranz(Death of a Salesman) as Tony Kirby, Tony Award nominee
Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) as Penelope Sycamore, Tony Award nominee
Reg Rogers (Holiday, The Royal Family) as Boris Kolenkhov,
Will Brill (Act One) as Ed Carmichael,
Nick Corley (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) as a G-Man, Theatre World Award winner
Crystal A. Dickinson (Clybourne Park) as Rheba,
Austin Durant (
War Horse) as a G-Man,
Marc Damon Johnson (Lucky Guy) as Donald,
Karl Kenzler(Mary Poppins) as Henderson, and
Joe Tapper (Witnessed By The World) as a G-Man.
The design team includes: scenic design by Tony Award nominee
David Rockwell (Kinky Boots, Hairspray), costume design by 2014 special Tony Award recipient
Jane Greenwood (Act One, Waiting for Godot), lighting design by two-time Tony Award winner
Donald Holder (South Pacific, The Lion King), sound design by
Jon Weston (The Bridges of Madison County), and hair and wig design by
Tom Watson(Act One, Waiting for Godot). Three-time Tony Award winner
Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County, The Last Five Years, Parade) composed original music for the production.
You Can't Take It With You is produced by
Jeffrey Richards,
Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Dominion Pictures, Gutterman & Winkler,
Daryl Roth,
Terry Schnuck, Jane Bergère, Caiola Productions,
Rebecca Gold, LaRuffa & Hinderliter,
Larry Magid,
Gabrielle Palitz, Spisto & Kierstead, SunnySpot Productions, VenuWorks Theatricals,
Jessica Genick and
Will Trice.
www.youcanttakeitwithyoubroadway.com