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Stage East’s Play by Play presents “It’s a Wonderful Life”

December 31, 2020 @ 7:00 pm 8:30 pm

A newly written adaptation of the Christmas classic It’s A Wonderful Life will be Play by Play’s finale reading for 2020. Play by Play, Stage East’s online theatre and play reading class, spent the fall studying the most produced plays of the 2019-20 U.S. season. In its final session—on Thursday, December 31 at 7 pm—the class will continue Stage East’s New Year’s Eve tradition. All are welcome to join the Zoom class for the reading; link below. A special sneak peek trailer can be viewed here.

Brian Schuth, Stage East’s president, wrote the new adaptation and will play Martini in this year’s Wonderful Life alongside his three sons: Sam (Ernie), Henry (Harry), and Frank (George Bailey). The father was quick to point out that this is not the family’s first rodeo. “This is my third Wonderful Life,” Schuth said, “The first one happened a (wonderful) life ago when my kids were small – I made Sam play piano, Frank was one of the young kids, and Henry did the sound effects…” Read more, including comments from each of the sons, here.
Cast members also include Anson Bergonzi*, Audrey Bradbury*, Manuela Brice, Duke Carlton, Madeline Collins, Kathleen Dunbar*, Brian Giles, Mark Macey, John Newell, Marlene Russ*, Jenie Smith, Laurie Sullivan, Mark Tappan, Kim Vogel*, and Rosalie Woodward*.
The production team includes Elizabeth Nichols-Goodliff, director and music composer/arranger; Mark Macey, producer and sound designer; Kim Vogel, production assistant; and Bernie Cecire, sound effects supervisor.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://islandinstitute.zoom.us/j/98346293962
Meeting ID: 983 4629 3962

This production is part of the Tides Institute’s 16th annual Eastport New Year’s Eve Celebration, with online AND in-person Great Sardine & Maple Leaf drive-by parade at 9 pm.
A full listing of events offered by TIMA on New Year’s Eve may be found here: https://www.tidesinstitute.org/new-years-eve/.

*These cast members were also part of Stage East’s 2019 production of a ‘live radio broadcast’-style It’s a Wonderful Life; read about that production here: https://eastportartscenter.org/2020/01/newcomers-and-veterans-alike-drawn-to-stage-easts-wonderful-life/

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The work of Eastport Arts Center is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. The work of Eastport Arts Center is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.