The members of WTC urge you to attend one of their performances and enjoy the many comic twists of the plot in this Pulitzer Prize winning play.
The performance on Saturday, March 8th will be a dinner benefit for the Winters Relay for Life with proceeds donated to the American Cancer Society.
The dinner will feature baked ziti with meatballs (vegetarian option available), green salad, garlic bread and dessert.
A no-host bar with wine, soda and water will be available.
A silent auction will also be held.
Doors will open at 6:00 p.m.
Tickets are $20.00 for adults, $16.00 for seniors and $12 for children 12 and under.
Tickets for remaining performances through March 23rd are $10 general and $6 for seniors and children 12 and under.
Fridays and Saturdays, March 14th – 22nd at 8:00 p.m.
and Sunday matinees on March 9th, 16th and 23rd at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased here
or at Pacific Ace Hardware in Winters.
For more information, call 530-795-4014
or send email to winterstheatre@gmail.com.
byline Germaine Hupe
The members of the Winters Theatre Company invite their friends and patrons to meet the charming and eccentric Sycamore family, the central characters in ‘You Can’t Take It With You,” the first play of the 2014 season. The production opens on Friday, March 7, with a Champagne Gala performance and continues for 8 additional presentations, including matinee performances on Sundays, March 9, 16, 23 and evening performances March 8, 14, 15, 21, 22.
The Sycamores have their own way of dealing with the challenges of the Great Depression of the 1930s. They simply “do their own thing” and assume that everything will come out all right in the end. Grandpa Sycamore collects stamps, attends commencement exercises, raises pet snakes, and refuses to pay income tax. Daughter Penny dabbles in the arts as playwright and portrait painter, with little talent in either. Her husband and their boarder make illegal fireworks; granddaughter Essie is a would-be ballerina, and her husband Ed spends his time with his amateur printing press. Unfortunately he prints inflammatory slogans which he doesn’t understand and distributes them in the neighborhood. These are just a few of the many eccentricities of this thoroughly happy, but very non-traditional family.
Problems arise when granddaughter Alice, the only conventional family member, falls in love with young Tony Kirby, the son of very wealthy, socially prominent parents. Obviously complications occur and the hilarious situations increase as two very different life styles collide. This play, written by frequent collaborators George M. Kaufman and Moss Hart won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The film version, directed by Frank Capra, was the Academy Award winner as the best film in 1938. Both versions have stood the test of time and remain popular today.
Plan to attend WTC’s version of this comic family classic. The Opening Gala on Friday, March 7th at 7:30 p.m., features champagne and dessert. Ticket prices for the Gala are $15.00.
The performance on Saturday, March 8th will be a dinner benefit for the Winters Relay for Life with proceeds donated to the American Cancer Society. The dinner will feature baked ziti with meatballs (vegetarian option available), green salad, garlic bread and dessert. A no-host bar with wine, soda and water will be available. A silent auction will also be held. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $20.00 for adults, $16.00 for seniors and $12.00 for children 12 and under.
Tickets for remaining performances through March 23rd are $10.00 general and $6.00 for seniors and children 12 and under. Fridays and Saturdays, March 14th – 22nd at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees on March 9th, 16th and 23rd at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased online here or at Pacific Ace Hardware in Winters. For more information, call 530-795-4014 or send email to winterstheatre@gmail.com
Coming this March,
the Winters Theatre Company will present
Hart and Kaufman’s classic, “You Can’t Take It With You”
at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave.
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, March 7th – 23rd
The Opening Gala will be Friday, March 7th, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the Opening Gala are $15.
The Saturday, March 8th performance will be a benefit for Relay for Life and proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society. Tickets are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors, and $12 for children 12 and under and will include dinner at 6 p.m., a no-host bar, and a silent auction.
Tickets for all other shows are $10 general and $6 for seniors and children 12 and under.
Sunday, March 9th, 2 p.m.
Friday, March 14th, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 15th, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 16th, 2 p.m.
Friday, March 21st, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 22nd, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 23rd, 2 p.m.
Purchase your tickets here or at Pacific Ace Hardware in Winters.
The Sycamores are an eccentric New York City family who have some “slightly batty” characters. There are many strange activities that go on in the Sycamore household including the manufacturing of fireworks and Grandpa’s interview with the IRS in which he reveals he does not believe in the income tax. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. Tony, the attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore house on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores find it hard to understand Alice’s view. Tony knows the Sycamores live the right way with love and care for each other, while his own family is the one that’s crazy.
For more information call 530-795-4014 or send email to winterstheatre@gmail.com.
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