What a difference eight years can make in history. When You Can't Take It With You opened on Broadway in 1938, the US was two decades out of the first World War, and when On the Town opened in 1944, the country was fully embroiled in the second. Both times the country was in a weird mix of melancholy and epic patriotism. And both shows sought to bring the public some relief from the former and capit…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 08:30AM on August 19, 2014