Re: A Christmas Story - The Musical
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:07 am
A Christmas Story is on tour now for 2016. Three of us saw the 2nd show of the tour at the beautiful Stanley Theater in Utica, where it has been teching for the past 2 weeks. The show was fantastic. It has a great cast that does a nice job with the big production songs.
There is only 1 BE connection. Four weeks ago we saw BE at the Ocean State Theater in Warwick, RI. Christopher Swan played a phenomenal Jackie Elliot. So the next show we see is this version of A Christmas Story and there is Swan again playing the dad, Ralphie's father, aka "the old man". This is a starring role and it is the 3rd year in a row he has done it. We saw Christopher at the stage door and congratulated him on both fatherly roles. He was very surprised that people showed up in Utica that had seen him in BE in Rhode Island less than a month ago.
The tour only goes until the end of December and it stays in the East. It comes highly recommended. Our local Utica paper gave it a rave review.
This large theater was nearly 100% full.
This was the 3rd show since August to tech in Utica before setting out on their tour. Kinky Boots and Fame the Musical were the other 2.
There is only 1 BE connection. Four weeks ago we saw BE at the Ocean State Theater in Warwick, RI. Christopher Swan played a phenomenal Jackie Elliot. So the next show we see is this version of A Christmas Story and there is Swan again playing the dad, Ralphie's father, aka "the old man". This is a starring role and it is the 3rd year in a row he has done it. We saw Christopher at the stage door and congratulated him on both fatherly roles. He was very surprised that people showed up in Utica that had seen him in BE in Rhode Island less than a month ago.
The tour only goes until the end of December and it stays in the East. It comes highly recommended. Our local Utica paper gave it a rave review.
This large theater was nearly 100% full.
This was the 3rd show since August to tech in Utica before setting out on their tour. Kinky Boots and Fame the Musical were the other 2.