'Story' time for Rando

Rando John Rando remains attracted onto direct the arrival touring output of the tuner adaptation of "A Christmas Story," altering Warren Carlyle, who initially signed on as helmer-choreographer. Carlyle ("Finian's Rainbow") remains onboard as choreographer. According to reps, he's bowing in the director role due to the organizing conflict that came into being when "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" -- he provides musical staging and choreography -- set an fall run, with previews beginning March. 25. Rando ("Urinetown," "The Wedding Singer") joins a title that began existence at Might Repetition this past year and ongoing to see Seattle's fifth Avenue Theater this season. The arrival tour aims to solidify the property's status just like a holiday staple, like "Irving Berlin's White-colored Christmas," a stage tuner that has stood a robust regional existence additionally to a number of periodic stints round the Primary Stem. The road version, which launches a five-stop tour in Hershey, Pa., on November. 8, will star Clarke Hallum, John Bolton and Matthew Lewis, who all came out inside the fifth Avenue staging, as well as Gene Weygandt and Rachel Bay Manley. Musical version in the 1983 MGM pic "Christmas Story" has tunes by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Ernest Robinette, good documents of Jean Shepherd and also on the film. Peter Billingsley, who starred inside the movie, produces the tuner plus a team of economic producers including Gerald Goehring, Roy Burns and Michael Mitri. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com