Among the actors in “It’s a Wonderful Life” are, from left, Mary Suggs, Jason Worley, Bobby Daniels and Jo Schendel.IF YOU GO* What: “It’s a Wonderful Life.”* When: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 15-16, Nov. 22; 1 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23.* Where: Catoosa County Colonnade, 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold, Ga.* Admission: $11 adults, $9 students/seniors, $8 groups.* Phone: 706-935-9000.* Website: Colonnade-Center.org.
Practically everybody’s had their George Bailey moments, when all the news is bad, when there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, when everything looks dark.
That’s literally the way it will look in Ever After Productions’ “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a stage version of the 1946 movie that opens at the Colonnade on Friday, Nov. 15, and continues through next weekend.
“We decided to do the entire show in black and white,” says director Jonathan Humble, “until the final scene when we introduce color. … We really wanted to focus on the heart of the story.”
The story, known to probably everyone who has watched television in the last 50 years, tells of Bailey, the banker from tiny Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure are quashed by family obligation, civic duty and threat of ruin.