A Christmas Story

Presented in Memory of Jeanenne D. Merka

 

• a play
• adapted by Philip Grecian
• Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story
• Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois
• Directed by Quinn Wrench & Hailey Roberson

Auditions: October 18 & 20, 2020
Performances: December 4 – 13, 2019
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm
General Admission: $15

About the Show: Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.