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That some of them want to do the voicing of these things as well.

So the first one we did was, it was It's a Wonderful Life, uh, with it, with, uh, George and Mary Bailey, you know, the famous Jimmy Stewart, uh, role and all that, that many of us watch every year.

And we did it, and we got great reception, uh, for doing the radio play.

We built a wonderful st- uh, set, um, overall on the stage, and when we do the w- uh, the Christmas one, sometimes we have a combo band that's with us to do some of the jingles and all those things as well.

He's a two-time Tony nominee and won a Grammy as part of The Book of Mormon.

Megan Hilty, known for Smash, Wicked, and Death Becomes Her, is going to play Mary Bailey.

And then Titus Burgess, most famously from Unbreakable, Kimmy Schmidt, is going to be playing Clarence.

And so those three with Harry Hamlin and Elisa Rinna, for some reason, are in the cast.

Playing these classic characters of Christmas lore.

George Bailey, Mary Bailey, and Clarence the Angel.

Phenomenal.

Then Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna playing all the rest of the characters.

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I'm your host, Jason Bailey, and across the mic and across the country from me is my co-host

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Our guests today are the co-authors of Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of It's a Wonderful Life, America's Most Beloved Holiday Film.

Um, I think it started with j- us just, like, I think we had this idea that we want it to be, like, kind of a walk-through, um, you know, character by character, like, um, you know, location by location potentially, um, as we kind of went through, like, the world of the movie.

And as we sort of got those down, like, I knew Emily had, like, a couple of her favorites.

I know she really wanted to write about, like, uh, some of the Bailey men and, like, Harry and, um, you know, George's dad in particular.

And then I had just already written a thing on Donna Reed.