Auditions: A Christmas Story

Bandon Playhouse will hold auditions for the production of the comedic play, “A Christmas Story.”

Young actors are invited to audition on Friday, Oct. 4, from 5 – 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Adults are invited to audition on Friday, Oct. 4, from 7 – 9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 5, from 1 – 3 p.m.

All auditions will be held at the Sprague Community Theater. 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.

Find character descriptions, scenes and rehearsal information at BandonPlayhouse.org.

Performances are scheduled two weekends, Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 6, 7, 8.

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.