Music and Lyrics By 

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

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Production Team

DIRECTORS NOTE

Christmastime is a season full of traditions, the kind that return year after year whether we’re ready or not. There are school programs, work parties, last-minute shopping, endless errands, and the gatherings with family and friends that make December feel like December. These rituals become the backdrop of our childhoods and the memories we continue to carry as adults.

In my family, one of those traditions has always been the 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story. Every Christmas Eve, the TV switches to that channel and stays there from the moment the presents start getting wrapped to the moment we finally get some sleep to the moment we wake up far too early. For us, it isn’t just part of Christmas, it is Christmas. It’s the warm, familiar soundtrack playing in the background of all our holiday chaos.

One of my favorite things about the musical version is how much more fully we get to know these beloved characters. The Old Man and Mother become more human, people with quirks shaped by their insecurities, their hopes, and their quiet strengths. They feel less like exaggerated figures from a movie and more like the real adults many of us eventually recognize from our own childhoods: imperfect, doing their best, and loving us in ways we only understand later.

The musical also gives fresh meaning to the Old Man’s “Major Award.” For years, the leg lamp was just a joke. But now I see it differently. I imagine he’s a man who doesn’t completely understand his own worth, and suddenly he wins something that makes him feel important and seen. Losing it wasn’t really about a lamp. It was about losing that validation. And yet, by the end of the show, he discovers something better: the realization that his true “Major Award” is his family, their love, and the quiet pride of being a father and a husband.

There’s a moment in the show when Jean Shepherd reflects, “Back in those days you never asked yourself, ‘Do my parents love me?’… When they said ‘Don’t run with scissors’ or ‘button your coat’ or ‘you’ll shoot your eye out,’ maybe they didn’t even know it—but that’s what it was, love.” To me, that line captures the heart of A Christmas Story. Amid the laughter, the nostalgia, the chaos and charm, this story is really about the everyday ways families show their love, often without realizing it.

Thank you for joining us tonight and sharing this holiday tradition with us. I hope it brings back memories of your own childhood Christmases and adds a little extra warmth to your season.

Happy holidays,

Kody Rash

Set Design and Construction: Lineset Design and Fabrication
Costume Design: Kody Rash, Kim Rash
Costume Construction: Kim Rash
Lighting Design: Nikayla Starr Nielson
Lighting Operation: Beth DeWaal
Sound Design & Operation: Afton Whitney
Technical Director: Daniel Francis
Stage Manager: Tori Turner
Spot Operator: Claire Francis

Special Thanks

Robert & Annette Saxton

Taylor & Diana Dearden

Jef Hogan

The Ace S. Raymond Family

The Hansen Sisters Foundation

Sky View High School Administration

Sky View High School Performing Arts Department

Sheila Sorensen

Cache Valley Visitor’s Bureau

Adams Wealth Advisors

Act I

Prologue: Christmas Eve, Several Years Ago, a Radio Station

Scene 1: December 1, 1940, The Parker Family House
“It All Comes Down to Christmas”

Higbee’s Department Store
“Red Ryder Carbine-Action BB Gun”
“It All Comes Down to Christmas” (Reprise)

Scene 2: The Next Day, The Parker Family House
“The Genius on Cleveland Street”

Scene 3: Soon afterward, A Path Leading to School
“When You’re a Wimp”

Scene 4: A few minutes later, the Classroom
“Ralphie to the Rescue!”

Scene 5: A week later, The Parker Family House
“What a Mother Does”
“A Major Award”

Scene 6: Early evening, December 13, 1940, The Parker Family House

Scene 7: Immediately following, On the Road
“Parker Family Sing-Along”

Scene 8: Late that night, The Parker Family House
“Act 1 Finale”

~ Intermission~

Act II

Scene 1: December 20, 1940, The Schoolyard and Classroom
“Sticky Situation”

Scene 2: A 1930s Kid Gangster Fantasy
“You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!”

Scene 3: Immediately following, a Path from School
“When You’re a Wimp” (Reprise)

Scene 4: A few minutes later, The Parker Family House
“Just Like That”
“Red Ryder” (Reprise)

Scene 5: Christmas Eve, Santa’s Station, Higbee’s Department Store
“At Higbee’s”
“Up on Santa’s Lap”

Scene 6: Christmas Eve, The Parker Family House
“Before the Old Man Comes Home”

Scene 7: A half hour or so later, Ralphie and Randy’s Bedroom
“Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana”

Scene 8: Christmas Morning, The Parker Family House
“Christmas Morning”
“Ralphie to the Rescue” (Reprise)
“Christmas Story” 

RALPHIE – Derek Geddes
JEAN SHEPHERD – Daniel Francis
RANDY  – Ruel Parry
OLD MAN – Stanton Allen
MOTHER – Danilia Trisollini
MISS SHIELDS – Haven Draper
FLICK – Henry Allen
SCHWARTZ – Nixon Thedell
SCUT FARKUS – Abe Higginbotham
GROVER DILL – Paige Smith
ESTHER JANE – Bailee Denton
MARY BETH – Eleanor Hunsaker
NANCY – Lilah Boehme
MRS. SCHWARTZ – Klydi Heywood
HIGBEE’S SANTA – James Jenkins

YOUTH ENSEMBLE
Hadlee Jenkins, Reggie Bowman, Ryan Floyd

ADULT ENSEMBLE
Dustin Hayward, James Jenkins, Bennett Floyd, Rob Hendricks, Keith Carson, Klydi Heywood, Rybeckah Tyler,  Olivia Hunsaker, Kim Day, Kim Rash

CAST