A Christmas Story Live! (2017)

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

People are voting emotionally.

Excellent, a Must See

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

But I am a fan of Musical theatre. I saw the touring production of this musical a few years ago in Denver. It was charming and enjoyable - as was this production! This is a musical based upon the writings of Jean Shepherd with a lot of beautiful nods to the original movie. If you're watching a "Live" production on TV - it's more than likely a televised version of musical theatre - don't expect a typical movie.

I watched Rocky Horror live and while it was bad, some of the songs and bits were kinda catchy and it was, at least, watchable. Then they did Grease live and I made it through it but I didn't enjoy it. And then this came along. I made it about 40 minutes and that was only because I was cooking dinner through it and was too busy to turn it off. The acting was just over the top, the songs were too frequent and almost universally terrible. Fox, just stop. Please. I mean I've seen The Room, Troll II and BIrdemic and I'd watch those over this any day! I would even watch all of the Sharknado movies rather than this! Please please please stop making these!

Cash grab for Fox views, plague with commercial spam. It was a book not a sing long. I bet no one can watch the musical for 24hrs straight, get worse.

I was glad to get the chance to see this adaptation of the stage musical A CHRISTMAS STORY, which was, of course, adapted from the popular movie of the same name, which had been adapted from the reminiscences of Jean Shepherd. LOTS of great talent was in evidence here, from the various writers, designers, directors (imdb lists two), choreographer, musicians, performers, et al. I found the score to be mostly charming and fitting. I was especially touched by the mom's song about how sometimes blessedly fleeting a moment can be, and it was nicely delivered by Maya Rudolph. As some others have pointed out, Chris Diamantopoulos was particularly excellent as Mr. Parker. I quite liked having the older Ralphie in the mix, embodied by Matthew Broderick, who did a lovely job (I came close to forgiving him for his terribly misbegotten Harold Hill, which was just one of the many crimes in that awful ABC MUSIC MAN, from some years back, albeit one of the most glaring of them).This program got apparently terrible ratings (a little known musical, up against a big football game--duh), but I feel it deserved much better, and I thank the powers that be for making this happen.