Directors say challenging music and a hilarious script are a delight

DAYTON – Theater fans will be in for a treat as they enjoy the exploits of nine-year-old Ralphie Parker, as he pines for his one Christmas wish – a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle – in this years' Touchet Valley Arts Council's fifteenth annual fall musical. "A Christmas Story: The Musical," begins Thurs., Nov. 17 on the historic Liberty Theater stage.

Co-directors Brenda Henderson and Mike Ferrians teamed up once again to direct the musical version of this well-loved holiday tale.

Lead dire...