For audiences, a Biloxi casino’s latest Christmas production is a cavalcade of warmly remembered scenes from a beloved movie. For two young aspiring thespians from Mobile, it’s a step toward stardom.

“A Christmas Story: The Musical” opens Dec. 12 at Beau Rivage. Based on the 1983 movie about little Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun, it features all the highlights: The bunny pajamas, the triple dog dare that leaves a kid with his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole, the beatdown of leering teen bully Scut Farkus, and towering over it all, that iconic lamp casting “the soft glow of electric sex, gleaming in the window.”

In also features Carter Hale Jr., 13, an eighth grader at St. Paul’s Episcopal School, as Scut Farkus, and Kelsie Walker, 9, a fourth grader at Dawes Intermediate School

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