HOLIDAY HUMOR TO TAKE STAGE.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - The Palmdale City Players will present ``A Christmas Story,'' a stage version of the unavoidable Christmastime movie about a boy's desires for a Red Ryder This article is about the fictional cowboy. For the Macintosh BBS software, see Red Ryder (software). Red Ryder® a popular American fictional cowboy from the 1940s, was created by Stephen Slesinger and drawn by artist Fred Harman. BB gun. Based on radio humorist hu·mor·ist n. 1. A person with a good sense of humor. 2. A performer or writer of humorous material. humorist Noun a person who speaks or writes in a humorous way Jean Shepherd's book, ``In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash,'' the 1983 movie has become a December staple in television reruns, giving a nostalgic look into 1940s middle-class American life through Ralphie Parker and his schemes to get a BB gun. The Palmdale play retains all the elements from the motion picture, including the family's temperamental tem·per·a·men·tal adj. 1. Relating to or caused by temperament: our temperamental differences. 2. Excessively sensitive or irritable; moody. 3. exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the freckly freck·le n. A small brownish spot on the skin, often turning darker or increasing in number upon exposure to the sun. tr. & intr.v. school bully; the ``wet tongue on a cold lamppost'' experiment; the Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie teenage heroine who has not aged since strip started (1938). [Comics: “Little Orphan Annie” in Horn, 459] See : Agelessness Little Orphan Annie red, curly hair. decoder pin; and Ralphie's father's leg-shape lamp. Patrons are asked to bring a canned good to benefit South Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' , a Palmdale-based food bank that helps feed local families. The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 7, and 8 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 2 and 9 at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Tickets are $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, students, military; and $8 for children 12 and younger. Family Night is Nov. 30, and tickets will be discounted to $10 for adults and $5 for seniors, military, students and children age 12 and younger. For more information, call the Playhouse box office at (661) 267-5685 or call (661) 267-ARTS for 24-hour recorded information. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Ralphie Parker, played by Roy Ellison, holds the object of his desire, a Red Ryder BB gun, in the Palmdale City Players' ``A Christmas Story.'' (2) Ralphie Parker, played by Roy Ellison, and his family, played by Terry Hamm, Ryan Finch and Tara McVeigh, gather around a stylish lamp shipped to the Parker home in ``A Christmas Story.'' Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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