Tim Scott has achieved what a lot of actors hope for &mdash; he gets recognized in public. </p><p>It&rsquo;s just that a lot of people don&rsquo;t know his name. </p><p>For two summers in a row, Scott has been the official emcee of Kansas City Royals home games. He interacts with fans, hosts contests and conducts pre-recorded interviews with players. He makes four or five appearances in a game and it all goes up on the big screen between innings and during pitching changes.</p><p>It is, he said, a great gig. </p><p>&ldquo;I get recognized a lot,&rdquo; Scott said recently during a rehearsal break at the American Heartland Theatre. &ldquo;Mostly, it&rsquo;s, &lsquo;Aren&rsquo;t you the guy from the Royals games?&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t know if I&rsquo;ll ever get my name to substitute for &lsquo;the guy from the Royals games.&rsquo; They do a great job of branding me out there. Anytime I come on, all over the stadium it says my name. But I get that a lot.&rdquo;</p><p>Scott interprets George Bailey in the Heartland&rsquo;s production of &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play,&rdquo; which begins performances tonight. As a man who is driven to the brink of suicide by circumstance but learns what is really important in life with the help of an angel, Scott tackles a role permanently linked to James Stewart. </p><p>&ldquo;I was fortunate in that I only saw the movie one time, and that was like five years ago,&rdquo; Scott said. &ldquo;It was one of those summers where as a fan of acting and theater, I said, &lsquo;What great movies haven&rsquo;t I seen?&rsquo; And that was one of them. I never saw it again, and I purposefully haven&rsquo;t seen it again.&rdquo;</p><p>Scott will make no effort to look or sound like Stewart. Besides, he&rsquo;s not literally playing George. He plays a radio actor playing George.</p><p>&ldquo;For me, it&rsquo;s pretty easy because I&rsquo;m nothing like Jimmy Stewart,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My characterization is nothing like Jimmy Stewart. And I really feel that&rsquo;s important, because if you&rsquo;re going to do a poor impersonation of Jimmy Stewart, you&rsquo;re going to leave a lot of people dissatisfied. The character as written is perfect enough. It&rsquo;s one of those things where if you just read the lines, you&rsquo;ll probably be all right.&rdquo;</p><p>The conceit of the show is that the audience is watching a radio adaptation of the story during a live broadcast from New York in the 1940s. Also appearing in the production are Lauren Braton, Ken Remmert and Kevin Albert. </p><p>&ldquo;People say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s like a radio play; how do you sell it?&rsquo;&ensp;&rdquo; Scott said. &ldquo;I say you don&rsquo;t have to sell it. You just say &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life.&rsquo; It&rsquo;s pretty tough to go wrong. I hate to be clich&eacute;, but in times like these, it&rsquo;s just great escapism. Especially with a story you love, and who doesn&rsquo;t love it?&rdquo;</p><p>Scott was born in 1975 and lived in the Los Angeles area before entering college at Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff. He was a speech and communications major. </p><p>After school, he moved to New York with his girlfriend at the time. They only survived about a year and a half before they retreated to Kansas City, her hometown. </p><p>But that was before he realized there was a professional theater scene in Kansas City. From 2002 to 2004, he worked two restaurant jobs with one goal: Save enough money to get back to California. </p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think there was any theater in Kansas City,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I mean, I&rsquo;m from Southern California and I had lived in New York, and I didn&rsquo;t even look into it. I never auditioned. &hellip; I think I had blinders on. It was really quite foolish. Who knows how things would have worked out if I had just opened a newspaper? The only theater I knew about was Missouri Rep, as it was called at that time. Never saw a show.&rdquo;