It's another one of my late stepfather's plays (little surprise there, I suppose) which he'd called A Christmas Story and I'm/we're just calling Christmas Story to avoid any confusion with better-known works. I'd expressed some possible interest in directing it when he was alive, and so now I'm going to be co-directing it along with the guy who directed the musical I was in back in January 2007 (otherwise known as the show that had to go on even though I was in the jagged throes of acrimonious breakup with Litha at the time).
It's a somewhat-melodramatic piece of "Miracle in the Middle of Nowhere"-ness, set in a remote rural train station with five stranded passengers and a fortuitous benevolent stranger who makes none-too-veiled asides in the direction of heaven -- unheard by the other chars, naturally. It has some good heartwarming possibilities, esp. if the lines are given pacing and nuance and the time setting is maintained in the early 1960s at latest -- which for all I know was "the present day when he first wrote it down, though that catchall generalization certainly doesn't fit the script now.
I have fairly high hopes for the production, actually, once I get the editing gone and rough out how to place more Christmas carols in around the action. It opens Thanksgiving weekend (Friday & Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday matinee at 3) and runs the following Friday and Saturday only -- we'd have had the previous weekend too, but rehearsal time was running a little short by the time we settled on play, directors and audition dates.
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Date: 2009-10-08 11:52 am (UTC)It's a somewhat-melodramatic piece of "Miracle in the Middle of Nowhere"-ness, set in a remote rural train station with five stranded passengers and a fortuitous benevolent stranger who makes none-too-veiled asides in the direction of heaven -- unheard by the other chars, naturally. It has some good heartwarming possibilities, esp. if the lines are given pacing and nuance and the time setting is maintained in the early 1960s at latest -- which for all I know was "the present day when he first wrote it down, though that catchall generalization certainly doesn't fit the script now.
I have fairly high hopes for the production, actually, once I get the editing gone and rough out how to place more Christmas carols in around the action. It opens Thanksgiving weekend (Friday & Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday matinee at 3) and runs the following Friday and Saturday only -- we'd have had the previous weekend too, but rehearsal time was running a little short by the time we settled on play, directors and audition dates.