Beneath its very funny surface, the play addresses the conflict between individuality and conformity. The head of the Vanderhof household is Grandpa, a man who left his life in commerce some years before to spend his time collecting snakes and attending college commencements. His daughter, Penny, writes plays on a typewriter that was delivered to their home by mistake. Penny's husband, Paul, manufactures fireworks in the basement with the help of Mr. DePinna, a gentlemen who came to deliver something and has stayed on for seven years. But Alice has become involved with Tony, the boss's son and the product of stuffy, conventional parents.
Complications arise when the two arrange a dinner meeting between the two very different families.
Simultaneous investigations of the Vanderhofs by the FBI and IRS add to the general mayhem. The show presents a humanistic idea wrapped in comedic clothes, and makes its points gently, without diatribe. With You is made up of a healthy list of Summer Show veterans and a fresh dose of Sudbury first-timers, all of whom are working hard to maintain the standards set by previous Sudbury Savoyard Summer Shows. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote together for about 10 years. Hart had worked as an office boy for a producer who'd turned down Abie's Irish Rose and never found a hit, and Hart began his playwriting by re-writing material for entertainment in the Catskills.