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A Christmas Story
Fri, Dec 12
|Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
CENTERstage Productions is thrilled to present the play adaptation of A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian. 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.
Time & Location
Dec 12, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 NY-308, Rhinebeck, NY 12572, USA
About the event
CENTERstage Productions is thrilled to present the play adaptation of A Christmas Story 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. Directed by Rik Lopes.
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…