Old Melburnians Theatre Society

20/04/2026

That’s a wrap on our 2026 OM Play “You Can’t Take It With You”. Thank you to the cast and crew for putting on a great show, and thank you so much to everyone who came along to watch us, and laugh along. We are sad it’s over, but we’ll be back to perform again next year!!!!

To the best stage family there is 🥂

18/04/2026

Last chance tonight to see our 2026 comedy “You Can’t Take It With You”. Tickets available online or at the door. Don’t miss out!

13/04/2026

Our thanks to The Victorian Drama League Inc for their good wishes and their help promoting our 2026 comedy “You Can’t Take It With You” directed by Richard Burman. Just 3 days to go and 3 shows only (7:30pm Thursday Friday and Saturday)

Chookas 🐥 to the cast and crew of Old Melburnians Theatre Society production of You Can’t Take It With You by Moss Hart and George Kaufman that opens THIS Thurs 16th April for 3 shows only!

Directed by Richard Burman, Alice Sycamore is the sole voice of normality in a family of happy eccentrics. The play’s action takes place in the home of Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, who decades earlier walked out on his Wall Street career for a life of fun raising snakes, collecting stamps, and attending graduation ceremonies. Alice’s mother writes plays, her father makes firework displays in the basement, and her sister practices dance — all with great enthusiasm if not talent. Other characters arrive and “just stay” as part of an extended happy family. All goes well until Alice announces that she has fallen in love with Mr Anthony Kirby Junior, the charming son of her respectable but very pompous Wall Street boss, and the Kirby family arrive to a dinner in honour of the newly engaged couple on the wrong night. The ensuing, (hilariously) disastrous clash of cultures that follows threatens to separate the young couple but of course has a happy outcome.
The brilliant script won its authors a Pulitzer Prize for drama, whilst the film adaptation starring Jimmy Stewart won two Oscars including best film. This play continues to delight audiences with its wit and positive message about living in the moment.

🗓️ PERFORMANCES
7:30pm on:
Thu 16th Apr 2026
Fri 17th Apr 2026
Sat 18th Apr 2026

🎟️ Ticket Prices: $30, or free of charge for students, staff and past staff
https://mgs.ptly.com/omplay2026

📍 The Old Melburnians War Memorial Hall, Melbourne Grammar School, 355 St Kilda Road Melbourne

12/04/2026

Tech rehearsal today for our 2026 comedy, “You Can’t Take it With You”. Book your tickets online at https://mgs.ptly.com/omplay2026

11/04/2026

4 days to Opening Night! Get your tickets here!

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09/04/2026

Here they are, the full cast for "You Can't Take It With You", one week till Opening Night

Mark Robins as Grandpa
Eleanor Robins as Alice Sycamore
Henry Stuckey as Tony Kirby
Bron Williams as Penny Sycamore
Scott Stuckey as Paul Sycamore
Jack Embelton as Ed Carmichael
Amity Smith as Essie Carmichael
Don Blasingame as Boris Kolenkhov
David Harrington as Mr De Pinna
Anita Kwong as Mrs Kirby
Nick Bird as Mr Kirby
Sean Chen as Donald
Kate Anderson as Rebecca
Urska Sabec as Olga Katrina
Mark Williams as Henderson
Peter Newbury as The Man

Tickets are on sale now!!!!

07/04/2026

Meet Mark Robins as Martin Vanderhof AKA Grandpa, who walked out on his Wall Street job 35 years ago for a life of fun and hobbies that include raising snakes, attending graduations, playing darts and collecting stamps. Mark perfectly captures the humour and depth of this role, as Grandpa provides the play's emotional centre and delivers a title line that has become part of our everyday speech.

07/04/2026

Meet Eleanor Robins as Alice Sycamore, our absolute darling heroine whose world is turned around when she falls in love with young Tony Kirby. El captures both Alice's affection for her family and her occasional frustration and pain on their account, engaging us with the humour in her situation and keeping us well invested in the play's inevitable happy outcome.

07/04/2026

Meet Henry Stuckey as Tony Kirby - Alice Sycamore's love interest and the son of her boss. Henry is charming as our young man in love, a little shy but infatuated by Alice and delighted by her family's warmth and sense of fun, which may just inspire him to change his own life for the better.

05/04/2026

Meet Bron Williams as Penny Sycamore, the eccentric play writing, portrait painting mother of Alice who is wildly enthusiastic about her daughter's budding romance with "the boss's son" Tony Kirby. Bron is relishing the opportunity to channel this fabulous, well scripted comic character.

05/04/2026

Meet Scott Stuckey as Paul Sycamore, father to Alice and son-in-law to Martin (Grandpa) Vanderhof who reads Trotsky and creates ambitious firework displays in the cellar with his friend Mr de Pinna. Scott gives a finely tuned performance full of warmth and a wry wit.