Performance Dates

• November 11, evening
• November 12, matinee
• November 12, evening
• November 13, matinee
• November 17, evening
• November 18, evening

Evening performances begin at 8:00 p.m.
Matinee performances begin at 2:00 p.m.

Play by Philip Grecian
based on the movie
by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark

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 Goldblatt'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 tempermental 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.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Co.