By Mary Damiano
When I was a child growing up in Jersey City, we would go to Manhattan and do touristy things. One such trip involved a tour of Rockefeller Center and the NBC Studios. A highlight was being in a studio for a demonstration of how old radio plays were performed, and all the tools they used to create the sound effects that complemented the radio actors’ performances, giving the plays a rich, cinematic quality.
New City Players’ latest production, It’s a Wonderful Life, transports 2022 audiences back to the late 1940s, to be part of the studio audience for a radio play just like it would have been done then.