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.
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Cast
Ralph – Ed Mastin
Mother – Carrie Wilson
The Old Man – Steve Rowlands
Ralphie – Collin Dean
Randy – Alex Wilson
Schwartz – Benjamin Norton
Flick – Jonathan Turner
Esther Jane – Amber Bates
Helen – Cadence Wilson
Miss Shields – Joleene Moody
Scut Farkas – David Hoy
Crew
Directed by Dan Rowlands
Stage Managed by Keith Arlington
Produced by Kasey Marie McHale
Costumes and Props by Crystal Rowlands
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MEDIA
AWARDS
Dan Rowlands, SALT Nomination Sound Design of a Play
Crystal Rowlands, SALT Nomination Costume Design of a Play