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This Christmas is special because their daughter Loretta has come home from Harvard for the first time in years. Loretta has nothing in common with her parents–She’s into e.e. cummings, they’re into the ice capades. While away at school, Loretta has fallen in love with a cultivated Massachusetts Kennedy. He wants to meet her people. The difference between Loretta’s Kennedy and her working-class parents couldn’t be more profound. He loves yachting. Growing up, Loretta’s parents never let her near water because “chlorine causes skepticism.” Loretta is convinced she was adopted.
Driven mad by the constant comic interruptions, the Nutt family must learn to deck the halls, don their gay apparel, and not hate each other.Surviving A Christmas Story is a crowd-pleasing comedy about family, love, and the one thing we all need to survive the holidays: forgiveness.
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(3 men, 2 women + a chorus of four extras)
The Nutt family lives across the street from the famous house where the movie ‘A Christmas Story’ was filmed. Their holidays are constantly interrupted by a parade of sightseers and endless traffic. They are so tired of movie tourists that the father wants to sue MGM for mental trauma. The mother has been driven a little nuts by people knocking on the door and asking, “Is this Ralphie’s house?”
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