My absolute favorite Christmas time story is "It's a Wonderful Life." One way or another each year I make sure to see it before Christmas. Most of the time I see it on network TV, but over the years there have been alternate means by which I have seen it. Twice there was a way that not only did I see it, I was in it. I appeared in stage productions of "It's a Wonderful Life" at the Capitol Theater in Chambersburg, PA and at the Weinberg Center in Frederick, MD. The next time I saw the show outside of a broadcast was a big screen showing of the movie at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg. I remember that when I watched the full screen theater version of the movie I saw a lot of things that I never noticed while watching the TV broadcast. Now as I am typing this I have the movie on my TV from the DVD. Earlier this year I saw a most unique live production of "It's a Wonderful Life" at the Chambersburg Community Theatre. The theme of this production was depicting an old time live radio production just like how it might have occurred in the late 1940s, complete with the sound effects done as they might have been back then. I was in my first stage production in 1997 and it never gets old for me.
