LCT brings 'A Christmas Story' to stage
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Lubbock Community Theatre will bring a holiday classic to life when it presents "A Christmas Story" for three weekends in December.
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 1983 motion picture will be featured, 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.
Written by Philip Grecian and based on the motion picture written by Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark and on the book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" by Shepherd, the LCT production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3-4, 10-11 and 17-18; and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 5, 12 and 19, at the LCT Proscenium, 3101 35th St.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. They may be purchased online at www.lubbockcommunitytheatre.org
The production is sponsored by the city of Lubbock's Santa Land 2021.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: LCT brings 'A Christmas Story' to stage
