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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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- FOX
- TV-PG
- FOX
A Christmas Story Live!
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 17, 2017
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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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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
61
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Many will quibble about the choice of a musical that's not widely known, but on the whole, this was nicely done.
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.
A Christmas Story Live! was solid, but it lacked the kind of emotional resonance that makes people want to see the movie over and over.
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.
[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
Packed too densely with needless smarm and excess songs, A Christmas Story Live! stretched itself to three precisely executed but tedious hours Sunday night--including gobs of commercials.
The added songs were too sugary sweet for the irreverent story, and as a whole package, it felt tonally dissonant and a little dull. The production tried to gloss over some of the more dated aspects of the narrative, set in the 1940s, with awkward results.
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Production Company:
- Marc Platt Productions
- Warner Horizon Television
Initial Release Date: Dec 17, 2017
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards
• 2 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination