Don’t miss the highlight of the holiday season, A Christmas Story – The Musical as it comes to hilarious life on stage! Based on the perennial holiday movie favorite, the story takes place in 1940’s Indiana, where a bespectacled boy named Ralphie has a big imagination and one wish for Christmas. A kooky leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a cranky department store Santa, and a triple dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the obstacles that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas dream.

Following the 2012 sold-out engagement on Broadway, A Christmas Story – The Musical was nominated for 3 TONY Awards including Best New Musical. The Associated Press calls A Christmas Story – The Musical “a joyous Christmas miracle,” while The New York Times writes “I was dazzled. You’d have to have a Grinch-sized heart not to feel a smile spreading across your face.”

Theater review: ‘A Christmas Story’

It’s hard to imagine that any holiday movie could achieve the beloved status of It’s a Wonderful Life, but A Christmas Story (1983) has done it. And you know what happens to beloved movies when they’re turned into musicals, right? Usually not so good.

So it’s a pleasure to report that A Christmas Story, the Musical,now making its area premiere opening the 75th anniversary season of Dallas Summer Musicals, bucks the trend. It’s a smart and hilarious take on not just the movie, but also on the autobiographical Jean Shepherd stories the movie is based on.

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