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.
Videos
LEADING LADIES
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (5/15 - 6/21) | ||
Home For The Holidays
Combs Performing Arts Center (12/20 - 12/20) | ||
Bright Star
Mesa Arts Center (11/1 - 11/17) | ||
DONE TO DEATH
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (1/16 - 2/21) | ||
The School of Ballet Arizona’s Fall Showcase
Ballet Arizona's Dorrance Theatre (11/15 - 11/17) | ||
TWIST OF THE MAGI by Debra Rich Gettleman
Theatre Artists Studio (12/6 - 12/22) | ||
NEW SUMMER SHORTS by Studio Playwrights
Theatre Artists Studio (6/6 - 6/22) | ||
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