Bandon Playhouse will hold auditions for the production of the comedic play, A Christmas Story.
Young actors on Friday October 4th from 5-7pm and Saturday, October 5, 2024 11am-1pm
Adults Friday October 4th from 7-9pm and Saturday October 5th from 1-3pm
All actors should be prepared to tell a joke (or two) or they may share a funny story.
We will also ask them to read together from the script. You can find sides on bandonplayhouse.org
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 under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” 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.
A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.