It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play December 10, 2010

Resident acting company members Stephen Berenson, Angela Brazil, Timothy Crowe, Anne Scurria and Fred Sullivan Jr. will create over 50 memorable characters as an ensemble cast. After years of putting off his own dreams to help others, everyman George Bailey (Sullivan) finds himself on the wrong end of humanity as his luck takes a nosedive when a rival businessman steals his last penny - along with his reputation. Drunk and despondent on Christmas Eve, George is about to end his life by jumping into an icy river so that his family can collect on his life insurance policy - until guardian angel Clarence (Berenson) steps in to save him. Bailey rebuffs Clarence's dose of perspective by angrily wishing he'd never been born. Clarence obliges, showing George what life in Bedford Falls would have been like without him - after which he sees, despite his run of bad luck, that he's truly "the richest man in town." The production is set as a period radio play, being broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1949. Talkbacks will be held after every performance.