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A Christmas Story
Performed at the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts

Dec 13 - 23, 2007
Thu, Dec 13 (7:00 PM)
Fri, Dec 14 (7:00 PM)
Sat, Dec 15 (2:30 & 7:00)
Thu, Dec 20 (7:00 PM)
Fri, Dec 21 (7:00 PM)
Sat, Dec 22 (2:30 & 7:00)
Sun, Dec 23 (2:30 & 7:00)

Auditions
For Children's Roles ONLY
Sat, Sep 22 at 1 PM

Adapted by Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, copyright 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.

by Jean Shepherd
directed by Jonni Pera
Performed at the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts

December 13 – 23, 2007

Any time you have a chance to see a Red Ryder BB-gun, a tongue stuck to a flagpole, a lamp in the shape of a saucily-clad leg and the Bumpuss hounds next door… you should go.  Do not miss this Chicago Street favorite!

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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 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 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.