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. 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.
Brian Keeler plays the narrator- Ralph looking back at his childhood.
The family is played by Dorene Weltzin as Mother, Andy Bangsberg as The Old Man, Jesse Hokanson as Ralphie and Reid Olson as brother Randy.
Sharai Hefty portrays the teacher, Miss Shields, Cameron Ljungkull plays Flick, Ryan Mathison is Schwartz, Caitlin Harris is Esther Jane Alberry and Lindsey Bangsberg is Helen Winters. Luke Bangsberg portrays the bully, Scut Farcus. Shawn Warwick plays several characters. Other school children are Shanna Frasier, Kayla Johnson, Juliana Braml, Alicia Wessman, Stacy Vono, Makenna Olson, Aaron Turcott, Ben Gilbert and Micah Weltzin.
A Christmas Story is directed by Diane and Travis Thorp.
Show Dates:
Thur Nov 29 at 7pm
Fri Nov 30 at 7pm
Sat Dec 1 at 7pm
Sun Dec 2 at 2 pm
Thur Dec 6 at 7pm
Fri Dec 7 at 7pm
Sat Dec 8 at 7pm
All shows are at the ETC
Tickets are $7.00 and can be purchased at Peter and Annie’s.
