A Christmas Story Live!

I'm not sure what the other person was watching. I don't like the original, but we are really enjoying this! Very creative songs and the actors keep hitting their marks. Haven't seen any mistakes yet! This is better than the original-this one is entertaining. Nice to see something entertaining on TV rather than the same old junk. I'm so glad I gave this a shot!

Anyone writing anything positive about this is writing on behalf of the production team or the pr people. Even the scenes are set wrong. Go back to basic remake 101. You don't make a classic better you enhance what it was / update it. Should of kept it close to the original as possible. Worst show I've ever seen do not recommend it even if your deaf and blind.

If I had never seen the original movie version of "A Christmas Story", with the incomparable Darren McGavin as "Old Man Parker"; Melinda Dillon, the perfect compliment, as his spouse, "Mother Parker"; Peter Billingsley as "Ralphie" like no one else could have ever portrayed him; and the cohesive sound of Mr. Jean Shepherd, whose artistic voice acted as a brush painting the masterpiece narration along the way and who also wrote the novel which this wonderful tribute to the holiday season is based on, however as I began to say, if I had never seen the original, I still would have felt that the attempt by FOX this evening was a failure in its interpretation of the source, its delivery of the interpretation and its emphasis being placed more on political correctness vice talent and ability regarding its casting of the parts.

But I have seen the original, more times than I can count. The original is a modern holiday classic in much the same way that "Miracle on 34th Street (1947)", "It's A Wonderful LIfe (1946)" and "A Christmas Carol (1938)" are holiday classics from the golden age.

I don't know what FOX was attempting to accomplish with this production besides showing that anything can be remade with heavy handed subjective political correctness, but whatever else was their goal, maybe others will feel they were successful in their mission. Just don't count me among them.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this production. The musical numbers are fresh and energetically presented, especially Jane Krakowski's tap number, the cast is amazingly talented, especially the kids and it's a fine interpretation of the story. I was once visiting an elderly woman for the holidays and the only thing worth watching was the repeated showing of the original movie. It took me at least a decade to get up the energy to watch that movie again, and I'm pleased with this production. It's not as good as either Hairspray or The Wiz, but it's nowhere near as dreadful as the Peter Pan! I will probably stream this again!

First then good. The actors for the father and teacher did quite a good job and obviously have had extensive stage experience. The costumes were accurate and some of the characters looked very much like the original movie.

The bad. The rest of the cast would appear to have never seen a musical let alone sing in one. I have been to a lot of musicals and often there is a guest star who does a passable job in a role while the rest of the cast is superb. This was quite the opposite. There were new scenes and almost unrecognizable old ones, but the worst was the butchering of the funniest scene in the movie just to make the restaurant scene politically correct.

This will not become a classic like the original movie. Will have to watch the movie to erase the thoughts of this one.