XMAS SPECIAL 2019 - "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

Narada Radio Company Audio Drama

Published on Dec 22nd at 12:04pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Welcome, friends, to the Narada Radio Company's second year of performing -- LIVE, in front of an audience -- our adaptation of the 1947 broadcast of "The Lux Radio Theatre: 'It's a Wonderful Life'"! Once again, we performed at the historic Rialto Theater in Aransas Pass, Texas, over two weekends in December 2019, to small, yet appreciative audiences. (BUT -- this is not the same show as last year! It's an extended version: some lines from a 1947 "Camel Screen Players" radio broadcast, plus additional dialogue, were added to this production, for our audience's benefit.)

Please do your best to overlook the technical and sound anomalies present in this recording. They couldn't be helped, and couldn't be removed fully in post-production. 

I want to thank all of you listeners, and my terrific Narada members, for helping us have a really wonderful year! We created seven new audio dramas in 2019 for "The Cellar", four for Sonic Summerstock, and two for World Audio Drama Day, and we brought live audio drama to three venues in South Texas. Not only all of this, but I put out nine episodes of our new podcast, "Old-Time Radio Essentials". What will 2020 bring? Tune in and find out!

CAST OF "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE":

Dana Gonsalves as GEORGE BAILEY
Jessica Mathews as MARY BAILEY, A BOY and ZUZU 
Michele Barnett as CLARENCE 
Chuck Wilson as JOSEPH and the DOG
Pete Lutz as FRANKLIN, POP BAILEY, MR. POTTER, OLD MAN COLLINS, MR MARTINI, THE BRIDGEKEEPER, and NICK
John Bell (of the BELL'S IN THE BATFRY Podcast) as MR. GOWER, JOE, ERNIE BANKS, ED, THE ANGRY MAN, and CHARLIE

Tamara Merson Wren as DR. CAMPBELL, TOM, MR WELCH and COUSIN TILLY 
Teddy Giggy as MRS. HATCH, EUSTACE and BERT THE COP
Russ Walker as ANNOUNCER 1 and HARRY BAILEY, 
Geneva Aubrey as YOUNG GEORGE, MRS THOMPSON, JANIE BAILEY and THE WORRIED WOMAN

Dawn Robertson as A BOY, MA BAILEY and PETEY BAILEY
Gene Giggy as UNCLE BILLY 
Royce Harrell as ANNOUNCER 2, SAM WAINWRIGHT, RANDALL, and the SHERIFF 
Ross Bernhardt as BYSTANDER, HORACE and MR. CARTER

MUSIC BY: Dr. Ross Bernhardt

LIVE SOUND EFFECTS PERFORMED BY: Pete Lutz

FESTERSHIELD CIGARETTES commercials and jingles written by Pete Lutz

FESTERSHIELD PERFORMERS:

Russ Walker as THE PRIVATE

Pete Lutz as THE SERGEANT

Dawn Robertson as THE DRIVER and THE CRYING KID

Dana Gonsalves as THE COP

John Bell as THE DISPATCH VOICE

Gene Giggy as SANTA CLAUS and

FESTERSHIELD QUARTET: Ross Bernhardt, Chuck Wilson, Teddi Giggy, Geneva Aubrey

HUGE THANKS TO JOHN BELL (and the lovely Mrs. Bell) for traveling all the way from Alabama and spending two weeks in performance with us! 

SPECIAL THANKS AND MAD LUV TO RUSS AND SUZY WALKER for making the historic Rialto Theater available for these performances. If you're in the Corpus Christi area, make the drive to Aransas Pass for a show at the Rialto. It's community theatre at its finest!