You can't take it with you if you don't get a ticket

Tickets are on sale for “You Can’t Take It With You,” the fall community theater production at the Nolan Center.

The comedy is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2.

A volunteer cast of about 15 people, with an additional 10 people working on the set, staging, sound and lighting, are practicing their lines, building the set and getting ready for the show, said Hailey Reeves, co-director.

“It’s definitely a group effort,” she said last week, with full dress rehearsals planned for next week.

In a first for the Nolan Center, tickets are available online at https://paybee.io/@nolancenter, said Jeanie Arnold, the director of the museum and multipurpose community center.

The main room at the center will be set up with seating risers, Arnold said, providing space for 125 people each night.

Tickets will be available at the door both nights, assuming the shows do not sell out in advance. The play will run about two hours, including an intermission.

If there is more interest than the theater can handle in two shows, a Sunday matinee, Nov. 3, is possible, Reeves said.

Besides for being different from past musical theater productions, “You Can’t Take It With You” is different in that volunteers have to build a set, she said. Using wooden frames, canvass and paint, the crew is building a combination living and dining room for the stage.

“None of us are set builders, per se,” but woodworkers and others are helping out.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the story of an “eccentric, lovable household.” The Nolan Center describes it as: “A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker.”

Kristen DeBord, who is co-directing with Reeves, performed the play in college 20 years ago.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1936, the play ran for nearly three years. The 1938 film, directed by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, won the Oscar for Best Picture.