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Full guide →When to go. Head straight out at curtain call. Two-show days are the worst bet at both performances — the cast rests through the matinee and is spent by the evening. A Sunday matinee is the best single bet, because it is a one-show day. In bad weather the barricades sometimes never go up at all.
Who comes out. Anywhere from nobody to most of the cast. Nobody can tell you in advance which three — not us, not the theatre. Treat any list that claims otherwise with suspicion.
What to bring. Tonight’s Playbill and a fine-tip Sharpie, held open to the page you want signed. Ask before you photograph anyone, and keep the pavement clear — it is a working door, not a red carpet.
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Bedford Falls is moving to West 44th Street. It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play plays the Broadhurst Theatre for the holidays, with previews from November 4, 2026, opening night November 18, and a final bow on January 3, 2027.
The gimmick is a good one. Joe Landry's adaptation of the Frank Capra film is staged as a 1940s radio broadcast, so a small company standing at vintage microphones plays every banker, bartender and guardian angel in town while the sound effects get made live, right in front of you. Watching someone slam a door that isn't there is half the fun.
And what a company. Andrew Rannells is George Bailey, Megan Hilty is Mary, Tituss Burgess is Clarence (and a few others), Harry Hamlin gets to be gloriously rotten as Mr. Potter, and Lisa Rinna turns up as Violet. Jerry Zaks directs. It runs about 90 minutes with no intermission, so you'll be home before the cocoa gets cold.
Bring tissues, bring your mom, and try not to mouth every line along with the cast. Or do. It's the holidays.
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