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Raw Emotion Opens Up Hearts — IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at MVT

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by Guest Contributor Tracy Hanayo Okubo This review begins with a more personal perspective. If you care to skip over the personal information and get straight to the portion pertaining to the actual play, please begin at the fourth paragraph. 2011, namely the second half of 2011, has been a particularly rough year for me. Things began to really go downhill when I didn’t get cast in a show that I really wanted to do, not because it was a super standout show like Avenue Q , but rather because it held special meaning to me and was an opportunity for me to work with an entire cast of people that I had really wanted to work with—including my father. In May I found myself, against my better judgment, opening up to the possibility of a meaningful relationship.The way I felt about this person is a way that I haven’t felt about someone in years and I was excited to the point that this jaded and guarded pessimist became a giddy little school girl. But it turns out that I got played