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(3 men, 2 women + a chorus of four extras)
The Nutt family lives across the street from the iconic house where A Christmas Story was filmed—a blessing for tourists and a nightmare for the Nutts. Every holiday season, their lives are upended by endless traffic, sightseers, and door-knockers demanding, “Is this Ralphie’s house?” The father is ready to sue MGM for emotional distress, while the mother has been driven, well, a little nuts by the chaos.
This Christmas, things get even more complicated. Their daughter Loretta is home from Harvard for the first time in years. Loretta, a poetry-loving intellectual with a penchant for e.e. cummings, has little in common with her ice-capade-loving, working-class parents. To make matters worse, she’s brought her new boyfriend—a refined Massachusetts Kennedy—home to meet “her people.”
The clash couldn’t be more stark: he loves yachting; they barely let Loretta near water as a child because “chlorine causes skepticism.” Convinced she was adopted, Loretta braces for a holiday filled with awkward silences and hilarious misunderstandings.
As the interruptions from tourists escalate and the family’s differences collide, the Nutts must find a way to deck the halls, don their gay apparel, and, most importantly, not strangle each other.
Surviving A Christmas Story is a heartwarming comedy about family, love, and the one thing we all need to survive the holidays: forgiveness.
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