A Christmas Story Live!
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| FOX | Release Date: December 17, 2017 |
Summary:
The Tony-nominated musical (itself based on the 1983 movie) is the latest live production for Fox, with adult Raphie (Matthew Broderick) telling the story how his mother (Maya Rudolph) disapproved of his desire for a Red Ryder BB gun as a nine-year-old.
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Movie/Mini-Series, Events & Specials, Music
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Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
There’s just not much depth to the story of Ralpie’s childhood desire for a gun-filled Christmas, but maybe that’s the point. A Christmas Story isn’t meant to challenge, it’s meant to comfort. And as reheated holiday leftovers, A Christmas Story Live! just about hits the spot.
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Dec 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The same aesthetic [on Fox's Grease or NBC's Hairspray] felt plastic when applied to this least plastic of holiday tales. So much of the bigness felt like a distraction: away from Ralphie’s tale, and maybe away from the basic (very difficult!) realities of employing child performers for a three-hour live musical event. You felt like there wasn’t a center to this thing.
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Dec 18, 2017
The Daily Beast
Dec 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
[Matthew Broderick's] wry delivery, always somewhere on a spectrum from understated to unenthused, serves the story well, tempering the erstwhile loudness of the musical’s staging. ... The latent grin of the music is relentless to the point of off-putting, especially considering that nothing from the score sticks in your head long enough to keep you humming once the curtain falls
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Dec 18, 2017
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