Three Plays: Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take it With You / The Man Who Came to Dinner
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Three American theater classics by two popular playwrights.
"Once in a Lifetime" is a satire about three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood as films move from silents into sound.
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The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner "You Can't Take It With You" is about a zany family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax payments; his son-in-law makes fireworks in the basement, and other assorted family members write plays, operate amateur printing presses, and play the xylophone. They live in playful eccentricity until daughter Alice brings home her Wall Street boyfriend.
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939) became a long-running hit. It portrays an eminent lecturer (based on Alec Woollcott) who accepts a dinner invite in a small Ohio town, slips on the ice outside his hosts' home, and is forced to their sickbed. Convalescing he turns the house into bedlam with his wacky friends and diabolic pranks.
Also included in this volume are "Men at Work" and "Forked Lightning," two essays Kaufman and Hart wrote about each other.
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