You Can’t Take It With You’ Takes You With It Merrily

On the way into You Can’t Take It With You, the revival at the Longacre of the 1936 George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy, I ran into Anne Kaufman Schneider. For those who don’t know, Schneider is Kaufman’s daughter and the primary keeper (now that Kitty Carlisle Hart is gone) of the collaborators’ flame. Since I know her slightly, I said hello and reminded her where we’d met, et cetera. Well worth understanding about Schneider — at least from what I’ve picked up in our brief acquaintance — is that she has inherited two traits from her father: his sense of humor and his suffer-no-deficient-production-gladly attitude. I asked her if she’d seen the new production. (She recalled that she saw the original production when she was nine or so.) She said she’d already attended this one more than once and would be at the opening. Then she said, “It’s good.”