Share | Burien Little Theatre invites actors to audition for readings of the holiday comedy “A Christmas Story,” written by Philip Grecian. Actors are sought who can play women’s roles ranging in age from 9 to 50 and men’s roles ranging in age from 9 to 50. Some actors will read multiple roles. You don’t have to be these ages to read the roles. The time commitment is minimal as two to three rehearsals are planned, and there will three readings.

Synopsis: Humorist Jean Shepherd's very funny memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s. The sotry follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case to his mother, his teacher and even the Santa Claus at Goldblatt's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out." All of the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking; Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more.