A Christmas Story - The Musical
Oh Good Grief. We are awash in hopeful holiday musicals. And THIS one is stupendous. Taken from a story the wonderful Jean Shepherd (Dan Lauria) told on the radio, and made into a 1983 movie, this one gets you from the opening lines as Shepherd says he passed by a Salvation Army Santa on the way to WOR and remembered another Christmas, in another time, in another place, and . . . a gun.The year was 1940 so this w…