It’s a Wonderful Life: Welcome & CONTEST!

So welcome to the 2nd show of Tennessee Rep’s 2007-2008 season–It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play!  After the compelling, darkly wonderful The Crucible, Wonderful Life presents us with a set of quite different challenges.  The story is the same one that we know and love from the movie of the same name.  However, in this incarnation, it’s presented as a 1946 radio play.  What’s great fun about this production is that we’re going to present a complete world from the moment the audience steps into the theatre.  From the production assistant carrying scripts to my voice over the loudspeaker (what we call “the God mic”), we’ll all be a 1946 radio sound stage–WTRT.  What’s a special challenge for us is that the “performance” won’t just start at 6:30pm (or 7:30pm) when It’s a Wonderful Life starts; no, when the house opens at 1/2 hour, we’ll be out there moving around and getting ready in our 1946 world.  Everything, from the preshow “curtain” speech to the bows will be in this 1940’s reality.  It really should be quite a blast for audience and cast/crew alike!

 And since this is the first day of rehearsal, our LookIn for It’s a Wonderful Life is right around the corner.  As I explained for The Crucible, Tennessee Rep’s LookIns are a chance for the public to come get a peek at our rehearsal process.  The director and designers will talk about their processes, the actors will present a short scene from the play, and there’s free food and drink.  Our LookIn this time around will be 5:30pm on Tuesday, Nov. 20th at our studio in the NPT building at 161 Rains Ave.  If you’re in the Nashville area, I encourage you to drop by and say, “Hi.”

And as I did with The Crucible, I’m holding another musical playlist contest.  During the LookIn I always play music; this year I decided to play songs that were tied to each show.  Take a look back to see the songs that won out for The Crucible LookIn–they were quite creative!  This time around you have even more options–you can choose songs based on the themes and happenings in It’s a Wonderful Life OR you can choose songs that are a nod to our 1946 settings–even better if you can do both!  Since Nov. 20th is just around the corner, don’t wait too late.  I’ll close the submissions on Nov. 19th so I can gather the music.  If you have ideas, just leave them as comments to this post–I’ll publish the winning songs after the LookIn on the 20th, and please plan on coming by to hear them for yourself!

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