New " Its a wonderful life" Christmas show?

[Avalanche04]

awesome i love the movie i also have too watch it every christmas season. i just hope they do it right.

[sanddunerider]

will for sure be a site to see... too bad we have to wait a year to see it!!

[Avalanche04]

yep but gives me another reason too go back next year,lol

[Zephon]

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.

[DollarCityBoy]

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.

[sanddunerider]

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...

[tiffanylynnt]

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!

[Zephon]

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.

[tiffanylynnt]

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!

[rubedugans]

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!

[mbrownx4]

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. 

[sanddunerider]

the stage would have been plenty big enough, but might have get a little frosty/cold in the hollow!

[rubedugans]

Has anyone read the story that inspired the movie "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren from 1943?