By Philip Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story

Directed by Eric C. Rohde
Performances at DeSales Catholic High School Stage

December 3, 5, 10 @ 7pm

December 5, 10 @ 2pm


Tickets: $10 general admission


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Due to current Washington State school performing arts COVID-19 guidelines, social distancing will be followed. LIMITING SEATING TO 70 PEOPLE MAXIMUM. MaskS are required for all patrons regardless of vaccination status. Per current WIAA and Washingtson State performing COVID-19 guidelines, all performers will be performing without masks due to either full vaccinated or complying with twice per week testing. Backstage crew members will be fully masked at all times.
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DeSales Catholic High School is proud to present A Christmas Story, the stage version of the classic holiday film based on the stories of Jean Shepherd. Adapted by Philip Grecian to story is a classic bit of 1930s nostalgia, wit a Christmas humor sure to please all ages.

Christmas is coming in Hohman, Indiana, and all nine-year-old Ralphie wants for Chrsitmas is the legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right in the stock. The problem is that every adult in his life, beginning with his mother, is afraid he’ll shoot his eye out with it. Ralphie’s attempts to persuade Santa and his parents that he should get the Red Ryder gun form the basis for this heartwarming and nostalgic look at growing up in a small town in America in 1938. It is a time when school yard challenges escalate to the ultimate triple dog dares, and gullible boys place wet tongues on frozen lamp posts. In the winter, fathers battle the furnace, and mothers dress their children in so many layers that the kids can’t get up if they fall down in the snow.

Narrating the show as the adult Ralph (Senior Franklin Magnaghi), the character based on author and radio personality Jean Shepherd. Ralphie Parker is portrayed by Sophomore Daniel Balof. The rest of the cast includes: Eli Hurwitz (The Old Man), Leah Ruthven (Mother), Mary Elizabeth Balof (Miss Shields), Grace Murray (Esther Jane Alberry), Jeyten Strnadel (Randy), Lauren Rohde (Flick), Caroline Kutch (Schwartz), Frankie Healy (Scut Farkas), Zoey Green (Helen Weathers), and Jason Guest (Grover Dill).  The cast is rounded out with actors in the Ensemble who play a variety of roles: Ashley Perez, Jerome Magnaghi, Veronica Renholds, Madison Orturno.  Assisting the production are Erin Beck (Stage Manager) and Kathy Rohde (Costumes).

Philip Grecian has adapted his play from the 1983 film A Christmas Story, which was based on Jean Shepherd’s semi-autobiographical books “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” and Wanda Hickey’s “Night of Golden Memories”. Shepherd, who grew up in the Midwest, became a humorist and radio host, and also narrated the movie version of “A Christmas Story”.