COMEDY: by Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture: A Christmas Story,
written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark
and on the book In God We Trust by Jean Shepherd.

Dec 8 - 17, 2006
Director: Kendra Blazi
Stage Manager: Hal Linn

umorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the Midwest during the late1940s 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 the guy in the red suit at Goldblatt's Department Store in downtown Homan, IN. The consistent response is "You'll shoot your eye out, kid. "

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 "major award lamp" shaped like a woman's leg and more.