A Christmas Story
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Christmas/Holiday, 1940s / WWII
- 7M, 4F
- ISBN: CA9
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.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy, Christmas/Holiday
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: 1940s / WWII
- Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary, Senior Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
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.
REVIEWS:
"Classics bloom quickly in modern times... you don't have to have grown up with 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his ache for an air rifle under the tree to think of A Christmas Story as a Christmas must. And [this] version is just as kindly and just as cockeyed as A Christmas Story is meant to be."
Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel
"I thoroughly fell in love with the show. This version is quite meaningful. It plays well."
Van Kaplan, Executive Producer, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
"A Christmas Story is still... one of the more enchanting ways to be transported to a world beyond our own. Yet it also serves to remind us how lucky we are to live a culturally rich life... and Philip Grecian's thoughtful stage adaptation preserves the old... references."
Tony Brown, [Cleveland] Plain Dealer
"Grecian's script retains Shepher's wry, tongue-in-cheek humor."
Eric Marchese, Orange County Register
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
Available Material
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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. Unit set. Approximate running time: 2 hours. |
$19.95 |
