NewsJames Earl Jones Will Return to Broadway in You Can't Take It With You RevivalTony Award winner James Earl Jones will return to Broadway this August in a revival of the Kaufman and Hart comedy You Can't Take It With You.
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Adam Hetrick
April 24, 2014
James Earl Jones
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Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, She Loves Me) will helm the production. Previews begin Sept. 28 at a Shubert Theatre to be announced.
Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Steve Traxler, Jessica Genick and Will Trice will produce the production that is expected to employ a multi-racial cast, according to the New York Times.
Here's how it's billed: "You Can’t Take It with You is about the Sycamores and the Kirbys – two completely different families whose worlds collide when their children become engaged. The Sycamore family may seem like the mad ones with their galaxy of unique and zany characters, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder."
The family comedy has been revived on Broadway four times. Its last Main Stem outing was a 1983 production at the Plymouth Theatre that starred Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, Jr.
PHOTO ARCHIVE: Celebrating James Earl Jones Onstage
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Celebrate Over 60 Years of James Earl Jones On Stage
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Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in Jean Genet's The Blacks, at St, Mark's Playhouse in 1961.
James Earl Jones and Julienne Marie in Othello at Shakespeare in the Park, 1964
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope at Arena Stage, 1967
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
