MTC's 'A Christmas Story, The Musical' Continues This Weekend

MOORESTOWN, NJ - The Moorestown Theater Company’s (MTC) ongoing production of “A Christmas Story, The Musical” brings with it a series of firsts. It is the:

• First time MTC will present the new musical version of the classic family movie (with age- and gender-appropriate casting);
• First time MTC will perform on the Moorestown High School stage;
• First time MTC will perform a musical by the great multi-award-winning team of (Benj) Pasek and (Justin) Paul;
• First time MTC will have Channel 6 ABC’s Rick Williams and MTC’s Mark Morgan sharing a role (‘Narrator’); and
• First time MTC will have a ‘(Pure International) Miss America’ choreograph one of its shows (Kristen Nasuti).

The show opened last weekend, and has four more performances with the all-ages 52-member cast this weekend. Upcoming performances will be on Friday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $13 for seniors and students, plus a $2 per ticket service charge. They can be purchased online at www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org or at the door beginning one hour before curtain time in the lobby at the high school at 350 Bridgeboro Road.

MTC is used to performing at the middle school, Hope Church and Upper Elementary School, but has moved to the bigger stage at the high school for this production. With all the changes, they had one week to get the show ready.

“There were a lot of challenges, but that’s what theater people do, we embrace challenges,” said Morgan, who is directing the show.

“So many people have a tradition at Christmas every year of watching this movie with ‘Ralphie’ trying to get his air rifle, and his friend ‘Flick’ getting his tongue stuck to a flagpole,” Morgan said. “We have been trying to get the rights to this wonderful new musical for several years, and were finally successful this year. As we rehearse this musical, we know that it was the wait! And there are several other productions in the area this holiday season, but ours is the only one that is cast age and gender appropriately.”

The attached images were provided by MTC:

Main image: 18 of the 49 cast members of A Christmas Story, The Musical at the display at the Cherry Hill Mall about the movie.

Rick Williams (as ‘The Narrator’) with Chance Neal (as ‘Ralphie Parker’).

Mark Morgan (as ‘The Narrator’) with Declan Miller (as ‘Ralphie Parker’).