You Can’t Take It With You
You Can't Take It With You aims to remind people to slow down and enjoy all the wonderful things life has to offer. When the radically-opposing lifestyles of two families come to a head, shenanigans ensue and in the end everyone learns valuable lessons in love, acceptance, and gratitude.
The largest inspiration for this show was classic films from the 1930s-1940s. This greatly influenced the underscoring and pre-show music choices, as well as sound effects, especially concerning tone and historical context. The best examples of this would be the large firework sequence, the doorbell, and the dinner music.
Partway through the show, an incident occurs wherein a “year’s supply of fireworks” is ignited in the basement and all of it explodes while everyone in the living room panics. Using just a handful of firework sounds, I layered them and repeated them to create nearly a minute-long sequence of skyrockets igniting, exploding, and subsequently igniting more skyrockets.
