Is this an entire new show? I haven't seen this myself and wondered if I had just missed it.
First time I've heard it being performed at SDC. Bedford Falls is 1880? Great Christmas time story, yes, wonderful movie with Jimmy Stewart. SDC play, well, if I squint hard and don't think too much about "Not in Miss Mary's Time" it works. I'll bet it will be a good show, too!
Let's just hope it's good...I saw an "It's a wonderful life" show in Kirksville MO that was excellent, then saw another company put it on in STL MO and it was terrible. Is this replacing the dickens christmas carol? They did such a good job on the dickens show, I hope this one is just as good.
When is this supposed to be?
Quote from: Kentucky Optimist on November 01, 2011, 05:53:06 PM
Let's just hope it's good...I saw an "It's a wonderful life" show in Kirksville MO that was excellent, then saw another company put it on in STL MO and it was terrible. Is this replacing the dickens christmas carol? They did such a good job on the dickens show, I hope this one is just as good.
The website certainly doesn't sound like they're getting rid of the Dickens show. It says start a tradition with your family with this show in it's 9th season. Maybe they'll do another show in the Riverfront Playhouse.
i just checked the website and the schedule for shows and activities is not on it yet.
i will check again tomorrow....
According to the times, "It's a wonderful life" doesn't start until 2012. The times say both shows....Christmas Carol and It's a wonderful life will play in 2012.
I like the idea of both shows. Dicken's is fantastic, and It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite Christmas Movie.
Oh I see that now.....
this sounds bad but I have never seen its a wonderful life. My husband tries to get me too every year but I just cant get up the gumption to watch it. I dunno. I watched the veggie tales version.....
HEY!! i am just happy with a NEW show of some kind..
Now if they will redo the saloon follies! (right tiffany?)
Quote from: sanddunerider on November 01, 2011, 09:52:05 PM
Now if they will redo the saloon follies! (right tiffany?)
Definitely!
It's a wonderful life is by far my favorite movie that I MUST watch every holiday...I am a bit intrigued by this one...
Maybe next we will see "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation" with Chevy Chase! haha
Somewhere I have a DVD of the Saloon Follies from a home movie somebody made...Wish I could find that this year...
awesome i love the movie i also have too watch it every christmas season. i just hope they do it right.
will for sure be a site to see... too bad we have to wait a year to see it!!
yep but gives me another reason too go back next year,lol
In 2012... "Dickens' Christmas Carol" will still be produced in the Opera House. "It's A Wonderful Life" will be a musical, and produced in the Red Gold Heritage Hall...a challenge for a production show because of the building's deficiencies for theatrical uses. The set designer showed me some sketches yesterday and it looks pretty interesting. I'm not sure, but the Nativity show will in all likelihood return to a style similar to what they did before it went into the Red Gold, and take place at one of the smaller open air venues.
Quote from: Zephon on November 02, 2011, 09:50:35 PM
In 2012... "Dickens' Christmas Carol" will still be produced in the Opera House. "It's A Wonderful Life" will be a musical, and produced in the Red Gold Heritage Hall...a challenge for a production show because of the building's deficiencies for theatrical uses. The set designer showed me some sketches yesterday and it looks pretty interesting. I'm not sure, but the Nativity show will in all likelihood return to a style similar to what they did before it went into the Red Gold, and take place at one of the smaller open air venues.
I loved when the Living Nativity was simple; not all the singing and dancing like it became at Red Gold. I remember when it was located behind the Wilderness Church and everyone sat on bales of hay, and the Angel arose behind the Nativity. It was beautiful, simple, and touching.
I loved when the Living Nativity was simple; not all the singing and dancing like it became at Red Gold. I remember when it was located behind the Wilderness Church and everyone sat on bales of hay, and the Angel arose behind the Nativity. It was beautiful, simple, and touching.
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AS it should be. In my opinion...
Quote from: sanddunerider on November 03, 2011, 10:01:08 AM
I loved when the Living Nativity was simple; not all the singing and dancing like it became at Red Gold. I remember when it was located behind the Wilderness Church and everyone sat on bales of hay, and the Angel arose behind the Nativity. It was beautiful, simple, and touching.
AS it should be. In my opinion...
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I agree!
I liked the Nativity when it first moved into the Red Gold, with the town of Bethlehem all around featuring Holy Land themed shops, and the island in the middle. I helped built all that and I thought it looked pretty impressive. The story was still the simple narrative back then. But, I do agree, there was something special about it when it was behind the church.
Last year in Show Choir (yeah... I know), we performed on the Red Gold Heritage stage. Let me tell ya! The stuff the buildings were made out of hurts! We tried fitting 20 of us on that stage, singing and dancing, so we were getting crowded to the sides some. I got a little close to a wall and scratched the top of my hand against it. Ouch! I didn't hurt the wall, so don't worry!
I liked the live Nativity from the first year or two of the OTC. It was outdoors, and included a figure on some sort of lift that would rise up above the scene from behind the stables/ manger scene as an angel and also be the Star if I remember correctly, very awesome, but man was it COLD!!! I cannot even imagine being up 15-20 feet on a cold Ozark winter night!
Aha, they liked my idea of "It's A Wonderful Life"! But luckily they did not go with the idea of putting it in Echo Hollow.
the stage would have been plenty big enough, but might have get a little frosty/cold in the hollow!
Has anyone read the story that inspired the movie "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren from 1943?