You Can't Take It With You
This is a story about the performance of You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart that we put on at Cocoa High School. This story is true in every detail.
Actually two funny things happened on opening night of this play. I'll take the story of the missing xylophone hammer first. This involves me. My character played the xylophone on stage, or at least was supposed to, but when I came running onto the stage the object that we used for a hammer was missing! It was a marker that we used as a xylophone hammer and it was mising. Apparently someone had used it to write with before the show and din't return it. I was very nervous, but i tried to act like everything was O.K. I tapped the xylophone keys with mt fingers, but no sound loud enough to be heard by anyone but me and nearby actors came off. Later somebody slipped me a butter knife and I carried on with that.
The second story also took place on opening night. As the theatre saying goes "On opening night, anything that can happen, will happen," and two big things happened on this opening night. Luckily Derek, who played Paul, made a better save than I did. Mr. Depina and Paul Sycamore work downstairs in the basement making fireworks. At the end of Act I, Mr Depinna and Paul come onto the stage from the basement. Brandon, who plays Mr. Depinna, accidently bumped the door, which was on unsturdy ground, and it fell over. Immediately, Derek said, "Well Grandpa always said that we blow that door down one day and there you go!" The audience laughed. They knew that that wasn't supposed to have happened, but it was a great cover.
This just goes to show that "on opening night, anything that can, happen will happen."
