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 (“You’ll shoot yer eye out!”) under the tree for Christmas. 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. The perennial Christmas favorite brought to life.

Presented by Iowa City Community Theatre at the Johnson County Fairgrounds

December 1-2 & 8-9 at 7:30pm and December 3 & 10 at 2pm