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

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!