A Wonderful Life | |
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Music | Joe Raposo |
Lyrics | Sheldon Harnick |
Book | Sheldon Harnick |
Basis | Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life |
Productions | 1986 University of Michigan 1991 Washington DC 2005 Broadway concert 2006 Millburn, New Jersey |
A Wonderful Life is a 1986 musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Joe Raposo.
Based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart, the story closely follows the original plot, set in 1945, telling the story of a suicidal man whose guardian angel reveals to him how different the world and everyone whose life he has touched would be if he'd never been born. The film was based on the 1943 short booklet by Philip Van Doren Stern, The Greatest Gift.