A Christmas Story
December 3-5 and 10-12, 2021
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Directed by Anne Taetzsch Fitzgerald
Produced by Matt Parrish, Rebekah Bradley Ray, and Alexis Wagner
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.
Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
***The Cast***
Ralph — Jim Young
Ralphie — Duncan Love
Mother — Cathy Marsh
The Old Man — Chris Markham
Randy — Louie Marsh
Miss Shields — Laura Hussein
Flick — Patrick Fitzgerald
Schwartz — Liam Murphy-Buchholz
Esther Jane Alberry — Isabelle Beyeler
Helen Weathers — Thea Franklin
Scut Farkas, Desperado — Jackson Comfort
Grover Gill, Deserado — Reva Sloane Franklin
Santa, Christmas Tree Lot Owner, Driver — Glenn Hussein
Neighbor, Black Bart — Fenton Mock
Classmate — Clara Lambert
Classmate — Sean Mahon
Classmate — Lennon Chappell
Classmate — Grace Bartosch
***Production Team***
Directed by Anne Taetzsch Fitzgerald
Produced by Matt Parrish, Rebekah Bradley Ray, Alexis Rennie Wagner
Technical Director & Set Designer: Tom Kernan
Assistant Director: Tarken Davis
Stage Managers: Matthew Cline-Taskey, Andy West
Lighting Designer: Rosalind Collins
Costume Designer: Barbara Ferguson
Sound Designer: Mike Riddell
Fight Choreographer: Larry Friedland