Ralphie sings, lamps dance, a mother loves by Chris Jones

Toward the end of "A Christmas Story, The Musical" you hear a small catch in the throat of the fine actor Gene Weygandt, who plays Jean Shepherd, the raconteur who gave the American Christmas its Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun. You immediately get what he's saying without actually saying: these memories of an imperfect, and thus perfect, Northwest Indiana lower-middle-class childhood of the 1940s are receding. The …

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