It’s a Wonderful Life: the Radio Show. From the Screen to the Stage, an Exciting Journey.
Perhaps you havent’t seen Frank Capra’s film with Jimmy Stewart in the rôle of George Bailey,! It appears regularly on Turner classic movies (TCM) these days, and provides an excellent background to this modern morality tale of raw capitalism where goodness and self sacrifice face off against greed, ruthlessness and pure evil in the town of Bedford Falls. Nevertheless, one might wonder how a film consisting of emotionally powerful images and good camera work could possibly be turned into a moving and amusing evening as an on stage radio drama based on the creative use of sound. But that is exactly what it was! …