Kaufman and Hart’s “You Can’t Take It With You” seems to be enjoying something of a resurgence in our area.

With a nice community theater production of it last season and an early announcement that another summer stock company will mount the show next season, the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre’s current offering of this thoughtful comedy offers us the chance to see it this year as well.

And — as audiences will no doubt be delighted to discover — the production at the Showboat is a wonderful addition to the series.

From a warm and genuinely lovely set created by scenic designer/technical director Joshua Jeffery to an array of spot-on costumes from costume designer Sonia Elizabeth Lerner, the show has excellent tech. Sound designer Craig A. Miller also contributes significantly, providing explosions and other sounds as needed to give realism to this version of “You Can’t Take It With You.”

Plenty of fine acting enlivens and enriches the show as well. Jalayne Riewerts is a hit as the dotty-but-warm Penny Sycamore, the almost-playwright and matriarch of an unusual family. Sweet and genuine — and simultaneously clueless — her character earns gentle laughs as Riewerts breathes life into this important role. Simone Renault earns broader laughs as the countrified Rheba, the family’s housekeeper, and her emphatic delivery serves the role well. Other household members who turn in fine work include Jennifer Gilbert (as Essie, the irrepressible ballet dancer), Josh Wright (as Ed, Essie’s typesetting husband) and Caleb Evers, who plays Rheba’s dim, candy-chomping boyfriend.

Kay Ann Allmand does excellent work as the unsympathetic ingenue, Alice Sycamore, and Joshua Estrada is wonderful as Tony, her besotted beau. Patrick Stinson and Sandee Cunningham are also great as Tony’s decidedly upper-crust — and severely uptight — parents.

Other nice portrayals include performances by Will Morgan, who plays a hapless Russian “ballet instructor,” and by Alison Nicole Luff, who cameos as Gay Wellington, a past-her-prime “actress” who would read a few scripts if only she could sober up a bit. Nicole Horton is wonderful as a post-revolution grand duchess of Russia-turned-waitress, lending a charm and grace to the small role. Lerner has her in a simply lovely blue gown, and Horton’s beauty and flawless curves — rivaled only by her superb skill as an actor — make you wish she could wear an evening gown for every single play she’s in.

Best of all in this “You Can’t Take It With You” is Rob Engelson, who is fantastic as Grandpa Vanderhof, the head and heart of the family. A strong, laconic presence given to brief, wise pronouncements, Engelson’s Grandpa is a fully realized, effortlessly appealing, truly genuine portrayal that connects with the audience and perfectly delivers the script’s central message. It’s Engelson’s finest work by far (at least of what I’ve seen), and his simple charm is what ultimately makes this show a winner.

Director Jerry Winters has to be more than pleased with this production, which gently reminds us about the value of what is really important — and does so extremely well. This “You Can’t Take It With You” is too good to miss.