It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play from Attic Theatre
The Attic Theatre and Film Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Attic Theatre Ensemble presents a radio-style performance of Frank Capra's holiday movie masterpiece live on stage. Complete with live sound effects, microphones and a dozen actors playing 78 different roles, It's A Wonderful Life recreates a radio broadcast of this heartwarming tale of troubled George Bailey's Christmas Eve journey through his life history.
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The Attic Theatre & Film Center invites you to a one-of-a-kind, heart-warming theatrical experience! The ATTIC presents to Los Angeles audiences this holiday season the Christmas classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, based on the classic film by Frank Capra.
The show will be performed as a live radio show using 12 actors (playing 78 different roles), microphones, and live sound effects. The script is based on the classic film by Frank Capra that recalls another time of hardship, foreclosures, and unemployment in this country. But by using the medium of radio, the talented cast of the Attic presents a story of warmth, caring and goodwill to our fellow man.
Based on the movie starring Jimmy Stewart and release in 1947, this story has become a Christmas classic on Netflix and TNT. The story follows George Bailey, who has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George, with the promise of earning his wings. He shows George what things would have been like if he had never been born. In a nightmarish vision in which the Potter-controlled town is sunk in sex and sin, and those that George loves are either dead, ruined, or miserable. He realizes that he has touched many people in a positive way and that his life has truly been a Wonderful one.
Attic Theatre Ensemble
The Attic Theatre Conservatory, Inc. is a California non-profit corporation formed in 1995 to establish an ensemble acting company based on excellence, to help develop new plays and voices for the theatre, and use live theatre as an educational tool to develop new audiences.
