'A Christmas Story' stage musical an enchanting holiday gem
Yes, that dyspeptic comic W.C. Fields warned against working with animals or children. But that's only because he never saw a phenomenal actor-singer-dancer by the name of Clarke Hallum, or the rest of the bravura young performers now playing alongside a gaggle of highly gifted adults in "A Christmas Story, The Musical!" This altogether beguiling slice of high-spirited Americana, now on stage at the Chicago Theatre, …