IF YOU GO
• What: “A Christmas Story.”• When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30-Dec. 1; 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2; 8 p.m. Dec. 6-8.• Where: Artistic Civic Theatre, 907 Gaston St., Dalton, Ga.• Admission: $15 adults, $13 seniors, $11 students.• Phone: 706-278-4796.• Website: www.actdalton.org.
Yes, everyone’s seen the movie, said director Tim Etheridge, but that’s all the more reason to see the play.
“A Christmas Story,” the 1983 motion picture in which young Ralphie is told he will shoot his eye out if he gets a genuine Red Ryder BB gun, is shown on television scores of times during the holidays.
But up close, said Etheridge, how would you depict the incident where Flick gets his tongue stuck on a pole? Or the slide in the department store? Or the classroom? Or the car?
The Artistic Civic Theatre in Dalton, Ga., will offer the funny, warm story Friday, Nov. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 8.