Newtown High School students are set for a streamed video performance of It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play for this Saturday, December 19, starting a 7 pm. Tickets are available now.

All tickets are $12 and available online at nhsc.booktix.com. The production is being sponsored by Ingersoll Auto of Danbury.

Director and NHS teacher and auditorium manager Janice Gabriel said students filmed the production over the weekend of December 11.

“Our students are just amazing. They really are,” Gabriel said.

Ingersoll Automotive President Todd Ingersoll said in an e-mail, “Ingersoll Auto is delighted to be the title sponsor of this production of It’s A Wonderful Life. We have underwritten theater productions for many years now at Newtown High School and other schools in the area. This is exactly what we all need right now to bring some added enjoyment to the holidays. Although things are so different these days and we can’t be there in person for a performance, now folks who couldn’t make it to the theater can view it at home. The entire community has a chance to see these talented students perform, right from the comfort of their own living room! Friends and family who live out of the state can all join in at the same time to share in the holidays together.”

As Gabriel previously shared with The Newtown Bee, the production will be staged in a “radio drama” format. Gabriel explained that for radio drama productions, actors usually do not learn what show they will be in until just before the performance. The actors rehearse the “form” of acting, but not the show. For the NHS production, the students know which show they are part of, but not what role they will play.

NHS typically holds a fall drama production, and the radio drama staging is taking its place this year. The show will not be “100 percent live,” due to different technology capabilities of the participants, but Gabriel promises it will maintain the integrity of a true radio drama.

Along with Gabriel, the production team for the show is technical director Tim White, production stage manager Leah McCafferty, assistant stage manager Katie Murphy, lighting design Lily Swansiger, sound design Julie Olsen, assistant sound design Abby McCafferty, construction head Claire Nalajala, painting head Maren Leyva, and props head Sammy Vertucci.

The cast, in alphabetical order, is Charlotte Cartelli, Leah Crebbin, Julia Forlenzo, Lizzy Gotschlich, Joan Gogglietino, Maddie Hintze, Sean Kenny, Jules Kessler, Kristin Lageman, Jackson McDevitt, Christine Salvo, Colton Stergue, Madeleine Talluto, Nate Wheeler, Nick Williams, Malcolm Zimerman, and Zac Ziperstein.

The crew, in alphabetical order, is Isabella Battaglia, Annika Fogal, Brooke Kinsey, Maren Leyva, Leah McCafferty, Abby McCafferty, Katie Murphy, Claire Nalajala, Julie Olsen, Aaron Richard, Lauren Smiley, Carissa Soriano, Colton Stergue, Lily Swansiger, Savannah Valentin, Dante Verna, Sammy Vertucci, Jessica Zhang, and James Thorpe.