WHO: Entertainment on your Christmas list this year? Come Here! Sure to be a festive Family fun night!
WHAT: A CHRISTMAS STORY
WHERE: Matthews Opera House Theater 612 N. Main Street, Spearfish
WHEN: December 13, 14 at 7 pm | December 15 at 2 pm | December 17, 20, 21 at 7 pm | December 22 at 2 pm
WHY: Since boredom gets tongues stuck to poles, make going to a show one of your holiday goals!
HOW: Tickets may be purchased:
ONLINE – matthewsopera.com
VIA PHONE – (605) 642-7973,
IN-PERSON – Matthews Gallery 612 N. Main Street, Spearfish
ADULTS $20; YOUTH $10
THIS IS GOING TO BE ALMOST AS MAGICAL AS A LEG LAMP…
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.
“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.” —Plain Dealer
“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 version is just as kindly and just as cockeyed as A Christmas Story is meant to be.” —Orlando Sentinel
“Grecian’s script retains Shepherd’s wry, tongue-in-cheek humor.” —Orange County Register
* Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
