If there is a Christmas-themed story, film, play, musical, or drama that packs heartfelt familial feeling, spot-on nostalgia, raucous humor, recognizable childhood experience and relatable sentiment more than Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story,” I’ve never heard of it!

Syracuse Stage has mounted a stage version of the iconic tale by way of a script written by Philip Grecian, based on the 1983 motion picture written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark. Stage’s artistic director, Robert Hupp, directs this “feel good” play, extracting all the humor, “insufferable” childhood angst, and genuine period replication of an era gone by.

We are introduced to the fictional, small town of Hohman, Indiana in the 1940s where we meet Ralphie Parker (Gavin Lambert), by omniscient narrator Ralph P

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