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A Christmas Story - the Play

Fergus Grand Theatre

Playful Fox Productions presents the play version of the beloved Christmas classic "A Christmas Story" just in time for the holidays!"You'll shoot your eye out!" Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old RalphieParker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. 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 written by Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.