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A Christmas Story: The Musical

The cast featured Dan Lauria as Jean Shepherd, John Bolton as The Old Man, Caroline O'Connor as Miss Shields, Erin Dilly as Mother, Zac Ballard as Randy, and with Johnny Rabe and Joe West both alternating as lead character Ralphie, played in the 1983 film by Peter Billingsley, one of the show's producers.


A Christmas Story House

The 19th-century Victorian, which was used in the exterior scenes of Ralphie Parker's house in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, was purchased by a private developer in 2004 and has been restored and renovated to appear as it did both inside and outside in the film.

Anne of Green Gables – The Musical

An independent production opened on April 16, 1969, at the New Theatre, London, running for nine months and starring Polly James as Anne.

Anne Of Green Gables - The Musical is a musical based on the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Arizona Onstage Productions

In 2005, the company received two nominations for best musical (one for Joel Payley's Ruthless! The Musical, and one for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain), two nominations for Best Actress and one for Best Actor.

Bad Girls: The Musical

New inmate Rachel Hicks arrives in prison terrified – not helped by the brusque manner of jaded Senior Officer Sylvia "BodyBag" Hollamby.

Principal Officer Jim Fenner – who believes he's been unfairly passed over for the position of Wing Governor – is dismayed to see Helen making yet another appearance on the wing.

Shell Dockley and her sidekick Denny Blood are quick to pay a neighbourly visit to Rachel as well.

Bark! The Musical

The LA world premiere cast include Joe Souza as Rachmaninoff, Katherine Von Till as Chanel, Ginny McMath as Boo, Robert Clink as Chester, Joshua Finkel as Ben, and Laurie Johnson as Molly.

Boobs! The Musical

J. Robert Spencer, Jenny-Lynn Suckling, Robert Hunt, Kristy Cates, Clyde Alves, Alena Watters, Brad Bradley, Tony Falcon, Benjie Randall and the New York theatre debut of Gennifer Flowers.

Also notable were the costumes by J. Kevin Draves and Robert Pease and set by Eric Harriz.

Camp Blood: The Musical

Camp Blood: The Musical is a 2006 '80s style slasher musical underground film by Tanner Barklow, Jefferson Craig, and Thomas Hughes.

David Cerda

His most recent works include the original late-night parody, s'Carrie! The Musical, The Birds by David Cerda and Pauline Pang (including a special benefit performance for the SHAMBALA preserve guest starring the original stars of the film, The Birds, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, and Caged Dames.

Deven May

He is most famous for his portrayal of the half-bat, half-human boy in Laurence O'Keefe's Off-Broadway musical, Bat Boy, for which he won a Theatre World Award for "Outstanding New York Debut," as well as Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations.

Dracula, the Musical

This version included 6 new songs, performed by a 40-piece orchestra and a European cast, led by Thomas Borchert.

The UK premiere of the musical took place in March 2010 at The Lowther Pavilion, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

The show featured Don Stephenson as Renfield, and Kelli O'Hara as Lucy.

Evil Dead: The Musical

With the approval of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, a musical version of the film was first staged as a workshop in Toronto in August 2003 and performances at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004.

Evolution: The Musical!

"The Beasties" take advantage of this opportunity, and close in on "The Blesseds." At this point, Charles Darwin, appears and stops "The Beasties" in a similar fashion.

Gary Seligson

Currently, Gary can be found at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre where he is the percussionist for Broadway musical Motown.

Gutenberg! The Musical!

His beautiful (but dim) assistant Helvetica is in love with him, but Gutenberg is unaware of her feelings.

Idol: The Musical

When the cloth is stripped away the audience realizes this is a fan club for Clay Aiken!

Jacob Zachar

He has performed in various theater roles such as On Golden Pond, Prairie Lights, Big: The Musical, Les Misérables and Guys and Dolls.

Jason McHugh

He produced both Cannibal! The Musical and Orgazmo and played Frank Miller in Cannibal! and part of the porno crew in Orgazmo.

Jesus Christ: The Musical

The film goes through various places such as a shop, with Jesus walking around singing "I Will Survive".

Legally Blonde – The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods

She became the standby for Glinda in the San Francisco company of the show from February 2010 to September 2010, when the production closed.

Libby Servais performed as an original cast member of the 2nd National Tour of Wicked from March 2009 to February 2010 in the ensemble and as an understudy for Glinda.

Rachel Potter performed in the ensemble of the 2nd National Tour of Wicked and as an understudy for Glinda from August 2010 to February 2011, as Wednesday in The Addams Family on Broadway from March 2011 to December 2011 and is currently playing The Mistress in the first Broadway revival of Evita.

Lovestruck: The Musical

"Everlasting Love": Performed by Adrienne Bailon, Sara Paxton, Alexander DiPersia and Cast

Luther Davis

In collaboration with Charles Lederer, Robert Wright, and George Forrest, Luther Davis wrote Kismet, Timbuktu!, and two different treatments of Vicki Baum’s novel Grand Hotel (At the Grand for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Light Opera Association and the Broadway musical version, Grand Hotel, The Musical).

Medea, the Musical

Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).

Natalie Mendoza

She performed in many musicals such as Cats the Musical, Miss Saigon, The Music of Lloyd Webber Concert Tour (understudying Sarah Brightman), Oh What A Night, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as the lead Frugue girl in Sweet Charity, and took the role of Eponine in the 10th Anniversary Australasian Tour of Les Miserables.

Oxydol

In A Christmas Story, an Oxydol box, as well as a Chips box, were in the kitchen.

Psych: The Musical

During a briefing at the SBPD station, Shawn exits to accept a Skype video call from Mr. Yang.

Raiders of the Living Dead

Teenager Scott Schwartz (A Christmas Story, The Toy) creates a weapon from a laserdisc player's laser and pursues the walking dead, aided by his girlfriend and grandfather (western star Bob Allen).

Re-Animator: The Musical

Original Re-Animator film director Stuart Gordon, who began his entertainment career by co-founding Chicago's Organic Theater Company, began thinking of a stage adaptation in the early part of the century.

Reanimator

Re-Animator: The Musical, an American rock musical based on the 1985 film

Richard Brancatisano

Before appearing in Power Rangers, Richard performed as Corey in the 2005 season of Boyband: The Musical, put on by Ricochet Working Productions, an Australian theatre company, and in the theatre production "Vin," as the lead character, Vin.

Richard Fleeshman

Fleeshman starred in the West End production of Ghost: The Musical, based on the film Ghost, written by Bruce Joel Rubin; with music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard).

Sherlock Holmes: The Musical

The story concerns a 1901 confrontation between Holmes and his old arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty; Moriarty's brilliant daughter Bella proves to be an even more determined (and beautiful) foe than her father.

It is also one of over 50 stage productions based on the Holmes character; see adaptations of Sherlock Holmes.

Silence! The Musical

Dr. Hannibal Lecter (tenor) – A brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer who helps Clarice out in her investigation and eventually escapes prison in a bloody massacre.

The original NY cast included Brent Barrett as Hannibal Lecter, Jenn Harris as Clarice, Stephen Bienskie as Buffalo Bill, Deidre Goodwin as Ardelia Mapp, Jeff Hiller, Howard Kaye as Papa Starling, Lucia Spina in a dual role as both Senator and Catherine Martin, Callan Bergmann as Jack Crawford, Harry Bouvy, and Ashlee Dupré.

Dr. Frederick Chilton (high baritone) – The pompous, incompetent director of the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

TromaDance

The idea for TromaDance was developed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman, who got the idea from South Park co-creator Trey Parker (whose debut film, Cannibal! The Musical, was distributed by Troma).

Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey

Jean Shepherd (1921–1999), writer and narrator of the popular holiday film, A Christmas Story.

World Trade Center Seoul

Legally Blonde, The Musical: 16 November 2012 to 17 March 2013, CoexArtium, starring Jung Eun-ji of A Pink.

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.


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