AUDITIONS
A Christmas Story
Adapted by Philip Grecian
Directed by Keith Marrocco
Underwritten by
Bill Samelson and Mary Anne Wilkinson
AUDITIONS- October 3 & 4 at 7pm
PERFORMANCES
Thursdays through Saturdays
December 1-17 at 7:30
Sunday Matinee December 11 at 2pm
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.
Auditions will consist of cold-reading from the script. Children must have a guardian present.
CAST
RALPH as an adult - storyteller also plays: COWBOY; TREE LOT OWNER; DELIVERY MAN; VOICE OF A NEIGHBOR
RALPHlE PARKER - Ralph at 9 - 11 years old
MOTHER - his mother (30s)
THE OLD MAN - his father (30s)
RANDY - his little brother (7 - 8 years old)
MISS SHlELDS - his teacher
FLICK - his friend and classmate; also plays: DESPERADO ONE (9 - 11 years old)
SCHWARTZ - a friend and classmate; also plays: DESPERADO TWO (9 - 11 years old)
ESTHER JANE ALBERRY - a classmate (9 - 11 years old)
HELEN WEATHERS - a classmate (9 - 11 years old)
SCUT FARKAS - a bully; also plays: BLACK BART (10 - 12)
SANTA CLAUS - a jolly old elf
*The opportunity exists to cast the 19 roles with 19 actors, plus extras, including children walking to school, on the playground, in the classroom. Schwartz's mother's voice is doubled by the actor playing Miss Shields.
Voices that may be done live or pre-recorded are: The Radio Announcer The Goldblatt's Public Address Voice The Cruising Adolescents who cheer and honk Extra children in the classroom; heard, never seen
Adapted by Philip Grecian
Directed by Keith Marrocco
Underwritten by
Bill Samelson and Mary Anne Wilkinson
AUDITIONS- October 3 & 4 at 7pm
PERFORMANCES
Thursdays through Saturdays
December 1-17 at 7:30
Sunday Matinee December 11 at 2pm
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.
Auditions will consist of cold-reading from the script. Children must have a guardian present.
CAST
RALPH as an adult - storyteller also plays: COWBOY; TREE LOT OWNER; DELIVERY MAN; VOICE OF A NEIGHBOR
RALPHlE PARKER - Ralph at 9 - 11 years old
MOTHER - his mother (30s)
THE OLD MAN - his father (30s)
RANDY - his little brother (7 - 8 years old)
MISS SHlELDS - his teacher
FLICK - his friend and classmate; also plays: DESPERADO ONE (9 - 11 years old)
SCHWARTZ - a friend and classmate; also plays: DESPERADO TWO (9 - 11 years old)
ESTHER JANE ALBERRY - a classmate (9 - 11 years old)
HELEN WEATHERS - a classmate (9 - 11 years old)
SCUT FARKAS - a bully; also plays: BLACK BART (10 - 12)
SANTA CLAUS - a jolly old elf
*The opportunity exists to cast the 19 roles with 19 actors, plus extras, including children walking to school, on the playground, in the classroom. Schwartz's mother's voice is doubled by the actor playing Miss Shields.
Voices that may be done live or pre-recorded are: The Radio Announcer The Goldblatt's Public Address Voice The Cruising Adolescents who cheer and honk Extra children in the classroom; heard, never seen