Today is the first rehearsal for Quincy Community Theatre’s production of Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and then some!) by Michael Carleton, Jim FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez, directed by yours truly! This show is hilarious, and gives me another chance to flex my pop culture reference update muscle. It was originally performed in 2003, which means that, much like the chia pets they reference in their notes about script updates, some of the references and things in the original script have grown wildly out of date. It’s exciting to get to dive into a script full of these nuggets and decide what has and hasn’t aged well, and to give a unique spin on the show to make it quintessentially Quincy.