It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is based on the classic holiday movie with a clever twist thrown in: the story is staged as a live radio broadcast. Actors portray numerous characters, and sound effects are done through foley artists. Thus, the actors play actors bringing George Bailey’s debacle to the sound waves as he finds his will to live and understands the true spirit of the holidays with the help of a lovable angel.
The play is set in the late 1940s, in a New York radio studio where their Christmas special is being broadcast live across the nation with a live studio audience. Little do we know about the voice actors on stage, so their costume is essential to bring more depth to their own identities behind the characters they portray in the radio cast.
