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A CHRISTMAS STORY

By Lake Worth Playhouse (other events)

12 Dates Through Dec 03, 2017
 
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Ticket Prices:

(Show Only Tickets) $35/Orchestra - $29/Mezzanine/Rear Orchestra

(Dinner and Show Packages) - $72 / $60

On-Line sales will end between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm for matinees and between 2:00 and 2:30 pm for evening performances.  For additional seating (based on current availability) please contact the box office direct at 561-586-6410.  For Groups of 10 or more with a group discount offer, please contact 561-586-6169-ext 214.

Synopsis:

By Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983  written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

A Christmas Story. 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