(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — J.G. Smith is the full artist for the American Blues Theater's annual holiday production of “It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago.” She makes it all sound so good.

[wind chimes gently ringing] The thing is, the northern lights don't actually make a sound. Yet when you watch ... whose job as a nature doc Foley artist is a study in the subtle art of exaggeration.