Smith to star in ‘You Can’t Take It With You’

Grand Island Dispatch, March 24, 2006

Grand Islander Doug Smith plays the lead role of Grandpa Vanderhof in the Towne Players’ staging of the sprawling comedy, “You Can’t Take It With You,” for the Towne Players, March 31 through April 8.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and also at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoons in the Sheridan Park Community Center, 169 Sheridan Parkside, Town of Tonawanda. The new home for the Towne Players is less than 10 minutes’ drive from the South Grand Island Bridge.

The play, about the comical collision of two families with widely varied values, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 and its movie version won an Academy Award two years later. St. Stephen’s Parish Players produced the play six years ago, with Smith cast in the role of the displaced aristocrat Augustus DePinna. He has played three other roles in the play, as well.

Randy Rumley of Niagara County Community College will direct. Christ Wozniak of Grand Island is graphic designer.

There is a reduced ticket price for senior citizens. Advance tickets may be purchased from cast members and through Carlo’s Hair Fashions on Grand Island.