Springfield Contemporary Theatre will present an encore run of David Sedaris’s hilariously irreverent holiday show The Santaland Diaries December 8 thru 17 at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza, corner of Robberson and Pershing. Sedaris’ side-splitting send-up of Christmas focuses on his brief, misguided career as a Santa's elf at Macy’s in New York. Besieged by bratty kids with overzealous parents and donning a humiliating costume, he finds that his cynical self and his elfin alter ego, “Crumpet,” are not exactly compatible. Equity actor Nathan Shelton plays David Sedaris in this production directed by Rick Dines. The stage version is based on an essay Sedaris read on NPR’s Morning Edition back in 1992. In 1996 Joe Mantello adapted Sedaris’s essay into a stage play. While highly fictionalized to get the maximum humor out of the story, it is definitely autobiographical. “It is David,” says Rick Dines. Sedaris refers in the text not only to himself directly, but also mentions his sister,
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