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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Internally: Adult!Ralphie holds the door open for his mom, and the two make eye contact before she gets into the car.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Internally: Adult!Ralphie The adult Ralphie holds the door open for his mom, and the two make eye contact before she gets into the car.
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* InteractiveNarrator: In addition to narrating the story itself, Adult!Ralphie often interacts with the physical environment and frequently participates in the activities.
* LateToTheRealization: In this version, it's only after Adult!Ralphie describes the aftermath of him breaking his glasses that he finally realizes his mother was never fooled by the icicle story.
* LateToTheRealization: In this version, it's only after Adult!Ralphie describes the aftermath of him breaking his glasses that he finally realizes his mother was never fooled by the icicle story.
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* InteractiveNarrator: In addition to narrating the story itself, Adult!Ralphie the adult Ralphie often interacts with the physical environment and frequently participates in the activities.
* LateToTheRealization: In this version, it's only afterAdult!Ralphie the adult Ralphie describes the aftermath of him breaking his glasses that he finally realizes his mother was never fooled by the icicle story.
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''A Christmas Story: The Musical'' is a musical stage adaptation of ''Film/AChristmasStory''. It has music by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Joseph Robinette. As with the original 1983 film, the story follows Ralphie, a young Midwestern boy in the 1940s as he prepares for Christmas and hopes for a Red Ryder BB Gun.
The show premiered in 2012. In 2017, it received a live, televised adaptation called ''A Christmas Story Live!''
!! ''A Christmas Story: The Musical'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Combined with an AgeLift; the middle aged Chinese carolers from the original are played here by the younger and more attractive acapella group, The Filharmonic. Could also be a case of DecompositeCharacter, since they're a ''quintet'' instead of a trio this time.
** Miss Shields falls under this too, since she's played by the beautiful Jane Krakowski.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Miss Shields is blonde here, while in the original film (and the stage musical), she has dark brown hair.
* AdaptationalExpansion: Mrs. Schwartz, in the original film, was only heard as a voice over the phone. Here, she appears in person, and plays an expanded role with a song about Hanukkah, going as far as to tell Ralphie the dreaded "You'll shoot your eye out!" line when he states his desire for the BB gun.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Internally: Adult!Ralphie holds the door open for his mom, and the two make eye contact before she gets into the car.
* ColorblindCasting: Several of the characters were played by African-American actors, most notably Flick and Ralphie's mom (played by the biracial Creator/MayaRudolph).
* InformedJudaism: Schwartz is Jewish in this version. Justified, considering Schwartz is a common Jewish surname.
* InteractiveNarrator: In addition to narrating the story itself, Adult!Ralphie often interacts with the physical environment and frequently participates in the activities.
* LateToTheRealization: In this version, it's only after Adult!Ralphie describes the aftermath of him breaking his glasses that he finally realizes his mother was never fooled by the icicle story.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After the singers at the Chinese restaurant perform "Deck the Halls" in perfect harmony and diction (rather than the AsianSpeekeeEngrish version from the original film), the Old Man comments that that's not what he expected (the owner of the restaurant even asks, "What ''were'' you expecting?" in a passive-agressive tone). An example of a JustifiedTrope, as keeping the original scene would raise the ire of civil rights groups and media watchdogs.
* RaceLift:
** As mentioned above, biracial actress Maya Rudolph plays Ralphie's mother.
** In the original film and the stage musical, the cranky MallSanta is portrayed as white. Here, he's played by black actor David Alan Grier.
** The singing Chinese waiters are played here by Filipino acapella group The Filharmonic.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** In this version, though somewhat fueled by his worries about not getting the BB gun, Ralphie walks over to Schwartz's house to apologize for pinning the blame for saying the f-word on him.
** Schwartz also apologizes to Flick for triple dog daring him to stick his tongue on the flagpole.
* WouldHitAGirl: Scut and Dill pick on both girls and boys in this adaptation.
The show premiered in 2012. In 2017, it received a live, televised adaptation called ''A Christmas Story Live!''
!! ''A Christmas Story: The Musical'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Combined with an AgeLift; the middle aged Chinese carolers from the original are played here by the younger and more attractive acapella group, The Filharmonic. Could also be a case of DecompositeCharacter, since they're a ''quintet'' instead of a trio this time.
** Miss Shields falls under this too, since she's played by the beautiful Jane Krakowski.
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Miss Shields is blonde here, while in the original film (and the stage musical), she has dark brown hair.
* AdaptationalExpansion: Mrs. Schwartz, in the original film, was only heard as a voice over the phone. Here, she appears in person, and plays an expanded role with a song about Hanukkah, going as far as to tell Ralphie the dreaded "You'll shoot your eye out!" line when he states his desire for the BB gun.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Internally: Adult!Ralphie holds the door open for his mom, and the two make eye contact before she gets into the car.
* ColorblindCasting: Several of the characters were played by African-American actors, most notably Flick and Ralphie's mom (played by the biracial Creator/MayaRudolph).
* InformedJudaism: Schwartz is Jewish in this version. Justified, considering Schwartz is a common Jewish surname.
* InteractiveNarrator: In addition to narrating the story itself, Adult!Ralphie often interacts with the physical environment and frequently participates in the activities.
* LateToTheRealization: In this version, it's only after Adult!Ralphie describes the aftermath of him breaking his glasses that he finally realizes his mother was never fooled by the icicle story.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After the singers at the Chinese restaurant perform "Deck the Halls" in perfect harmony and diction (rather than the AsianSpeekeeEngrish version from the original film), the Old Man comments that that's not what he expected (the owner of the restaurant even asks, "What ''were'' you expecting?" in a passive-agressive tone). An example of a JustifiedTrope, as keeping the original scene would raise the ire of civil rights groups and media watchdogs.
* RaceLift:
** As mentioned above, biracial actress Maya Rudolph plays Ralphie's mother.
** In the original film and the stage musical, the cranky MallSanta is portrayed as white. Here, he's played by black actor David Alan Grier.
** The singing Chinese waiters are played here by Filipino acapella group The Filharmonic.
* TookALevelInKindness:
** In this version, though somewhat fueled by his worries about not getting the BB gun, Ralphie walks over to Schwartz's house to apologize for pinning the blame for saying the f-word on him.
** Schwartz also apologizes to Flick for triple dog daring him to stick his tongue on the flagpole.
* WouldHitAGirl: Scut and Dill pick on both girls and boys in this adaptation.
