![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of us weren't around to see how radio put on its plays back then, but if you attended A Prairie Home Companion or watched Remember WENN or the radio play episode of Frasier, you've seen actors dropping pages of their scripts in front of standing microphones, switching from one character to the next while the sound effects operator rattles sheets of tin and pops balloons to sound like gunshots. This year, ISU professor Connie de Veer is directing It's a Wonderful Life, a Live Radio Play, a stage adaptation by Joe Landry from the famous Frank Capra movie that shows all the action as if it were happening in a radio studio in the 1940s. Since ISU's academic calendar doesn't usually go very far into December, they don't usually schedule performances then, either. That's the day Illinois State University's School of Theatre and Dance offers a rarity - not just a show with a holiday theme, but a show with performances in December. If you've already chosen what you're doing December 1, you may want to consider December 2. ![]()
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