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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
When: 7 p.m. today-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays through Dec. 28; plus 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 23 and 2 p.m. Dec. 27; Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Sixth and Main streets, Little Rock
Hark: Wednesday performance sign-interpreted for the hearing impaired
Tickets: $40, $20 (501) 378-0405 or (866) 684-3737
The plot of this version, which premiered in 1996 at the Stamford Center for the Arts in Stamford, Conn., is the same as the 1946 Frank Capra-directed film. George Bailey, a man with a wife, four children and his own business, has a run of setbacks so severe that he questions his worth, and decides that suicide is his best course of action. A guardian angel intervenes and shows him what the world would have been like if he had never lived.
"When the screenplay entered the public domain, Landry had the idea to do this in the context of a radio play, and I found this most intriguing," Hupp says.
"It's set in a radio station in Manhattan, and I thought that was a great convention, a great vehicle to bring this story to life. You have these talented actors creating all these roles, but they're also creating all the sound effects that you would expect from a radio play. You also get the actors singing, doing commercials and jingles. That element makes for so much more fun."
The play is set in the studios of radio station WBFR on Christmas Eve 1946. Five cast members portray more than 30 characters total.
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Where
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WhenDecember 5, 2008 , 7 p.m.
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Cost$20 - $40
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CityLittle Rock, AR
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