Marcia Thomas/Contributing Writer
Jefferson’s Opera House Theatre Players is bringing back one of the most popular productions of last season with an encore performance of “It’s A Wonderful Life”, a Live Radio Play.
The play is a radio script play that was first produced on radio in the 1940s but later became a hugely successful film starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. The Players production will bring back the same cast members that were in last years presentation at the VFW Hall. Period costumes will also be used by cast members to “create” the atmosphere of being in a 1940s radio studio.
Players cast members are Joe Todaro, Lisa Daye, Jane Maddox, Joe Wardlow, Jim Blackburn, Angela Martinez, and Marcia Thomas. Returning for the lead role of George Bailey, is the talented Cheyenne Mobbs an independent film actor with a number of credits in successful films in recent years. Mobbs played the role “to the hilt last year” according to production supervisor Marcia Thomas. “He was so excellent in creating the pathos and the genuine likeability of the character, that we had to get him back this year. Luckily, he was available at this particular time of the year”.
Tickets are being sold at The Willow Tree and online at the theatre website http://www.JeffersonOperaHouseTheatrePlayers.com. The performance will take place in the historic Union Baptist Church Event Center which is on Houston Street on Friday, December 15 and Saturday, December 16. Show time is 7 pm and some tickets may be available at the door at $15 although early purchases are recommended due to the influx of visitors attending the Candlelight Tour of Homes.
In addition, audiences who attend the Saturday performance date may be rewarded with a pre-show keyboard concert by Players regular entertaienr, 13 year old Riley Cox, grandson of board member Dian Beaird.