The run closed December 30, 2012
- Opened
- November 19, 2012
- Closed
- December 30, 2012
- Performances
- 252
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 91st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it29 named
Zac Ballard
Tia Altinay
John Babbo
Charissa Bertels
Grace Capeless
Andrew Cristi
Thay Floyd
Nick Gaswirth
Mark Ledbetter
Lily
Jose Luaces
Jack Mastrianni
Lindsay O Neil
Sarah Min Kyung Park
Pete
J D Rodriguez
Analise Scarpaci
Lara Seibert
Jeremy Shinder
Luke Spring
Beatrice Tulchin
Alexa Niziak
7 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters14 roles recorded
Johnny Rabe Joe West Ralphie Parker
Zac Ballard Randy Parker
Dan Lauria Jean Shepherd
Erin Dilly Mother
John Bolton The Old Man
Caroline O'Connor Miss Shields
J.D. Rodriguez Schwartz
Jeremy Shinder Flick
Jack Mastrianni Scut Farkus
John Francis Babbo Grover Dill
Eddie Korbich Santa
Kirsten Wyatt Mrs. Schwartz
Andrew Cristi Restaurant Waiter
Andrew Cristi and Kirsten Wyatt Elves at Higbee's
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- John Rando, John
- Choreographer
- Warren Carlyle
- Orchestrations
- Larry Blank
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
A Christmas Story: The Musical is a stage musical with music and lyrics written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Joseph Robinette. It is based on the 1983 film A Christmas Story, itself based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. The musical takes place in the 1940s in Indiana and focuses on a child named Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. After numerous regional productions, out of town tryouts and national tours, this version of the musical originally officially opened on Broadway in November 2012 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre for a limited engagement that ran through December.
Curtain call on opening night. Correspondent: John Bolton, “The Old Man” The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 93
- A Christmas Story, The Musical Music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2012 To May 2013 Robert Viagas 9th Annual Ed, p. 431
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for A Christmas Story, The Musical at all.
- No show page for A Christmas Story, The Musical. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.