Wonderful Tonight
This is a little delayed but I needed to offer my review of TNB's It's a Wonderful Life because I consider myself an expert on the movie; simply because it moves me every time I see it. I'll start out by saying I loved it. I had a good sense that I would when I heard director (and former Calithumpian) Caleb Marshall interviewed on CBC days before. He said this has been one of his favourite movies since childhood "whether I was watching it with family before Christmas or alone up late on Christmas Eve" and that "the last scene gets me every time". If anyone had ever asked, those could and would have been my quotes. That ending gets me everytime too and I had faith he would honour the movie as I would hope.
Their version was presented in an interesting format - "Our production pays homage to the classic film, but doesn't try to recreate it. We are staging the story in part as a 1940's radio drama, complete with live sound effects, radio jingles, and actors playing multiple characters." The story stayed true to the original almost to the letter. To top it off the performances were great as were the stage and sound effects. And yes, at the end, it may have got a little dusty in the theatre. Very cool play. Well done TNB, first rate production.
Classic.
Pace out.
posted by Vitamin S @ 7:02 p.m.
2 Comments:
Pacey,
I just saw "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time the other night. How is that possible you say? I don't know really, I guess every year it zigged and I zagged. Every year I would always just catch him running down the snowy street and then I'd change the channel. However this year I took it upon myself to sit down Sunday night and take it in. I loved it, especially the last scene as per the youtube clip. What a movie! Just thought I share that. Have a good one.
Mooney
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