Please help ACTOR decide what play we should do for our Christmas show:
"A Christmas Story" By Jean Shepherd
Synopsis: Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest of the 1940's 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 before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Goldblatt's Department Store. The Consistent response: "You'll shoot your eye out." All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; 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.
"Trapped By A Treacherous Twin or Double Trouble" By Charles Randall & Joan Bushnell
Synopsis: This lively melodrama has a unique device to delight both cast and audience. The stalwart hero and the fiendish villain are identical twins played by the same actor. An actor's dream! Christmas morning finds their mother, Grace Haverford, sharing confidences with the portrait of her husband, Hubert, who mysteriously vanished one year ago today. It's also the birthday of Noel and Yule - the identical twins - who are as different as, well, as hero and villain! Each of the brothers is smitten with the beauty and virtue of Sadie Rose, Grace Haverford's newly-engaged resident secretary. The twins' rivalry becomes even more intense as each accuses the other of complicity in the disappearance of a large sum of money from the family-owned bank. A cloud of doom hangs over the once-proud Haverford Manor. Virtue, however, triumphs at last with the support of April Haverford, the spirited young sister and her comical but capable suitor, Clarence Collingsworth. Accentuated by a voluptuous French maid and well-meaning policeman, the non-stop action climaxes on a far happier Christmas day one year later.
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