In Boston, the Orphans really get to work at Christmastime. It’s not as Dickensian as it sounds, however. We’re talking about the Gold Dust Orphans, Ryan Landry’s long-running incubator of theatrical fabulousness. This year Landry rolls out a new holiday show, “Rudolph the Red Necked Reindeer.” Replete with the Orphans’ trademark drag performances and raunchy parody, it explodes the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated Christmas special, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” In Landry’s version, Rudolph is an often shirtless hunk, and his rich parents, Thurston and Lovey Howell, are ashamed of his glowing red neck. This is the kind of show where Santa is, as …

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