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Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 6m, 1girl(s) plus ensemble
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Based Upon the Paramount Pictures Film Written For the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Original stage production directed by Walter Bobbie
Image: 2019 US National Tour Production (Jeremy Daniel)
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Cast Size
5w, 6m, 1girl(s) plus ensemble -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Adaptation (Stage & Screen), Christmas/Holiday -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Accolades
Nominee: Two 2009 Tony Awards
Nominee: Six 2009 Drama Desk Awards
Details
Summary
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies”, “I Love A Piano”, “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting, wholesome musical that will delight audiences of all ages.
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History
Paramount Pictures released the movie musical White Christmas in 1954. Directed by Michael Curtiz, the film starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen, and featured 17 songs by Irving Berlin. The top moneymaker of 1954, White Christmas set a new record as Hollywood’s all-time highest-grossing musical.
The stage adaptation of White Christmas opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on 4 November 2008, after several successful engagements throughout the United States. Directed by Walter Bobbie and starring Stephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, Kerry O’Malley and Meredith Patterson, the show was an audience favorite; it returned to Broadway the following year, starring James Clow, Tony Yazbeck, Melissa Errico and Mara Davi.
For more on the show's history, check out the below article in Breaking Character:
Simplicity, Generosity, Decency: David Ives on White Christmas
by David Ives
Cast Attributes
Keywords
- Time Period 1950s
- Setting New York City and Vermont. 1954.
- Features Period Costumes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
Media
“A jolly live extravaganza that only Scrooges can resist.” – New York Magazine
“Enchanting as a first snow… Audiences drank it up like spiked egg nog.” – San Francisco Examiner
“White Christmas has ‘hit’ stamped all over it... There just aren't enough superlatives for this irresistible show.” – Evening Herald
“A big, boffo Broadway musical with a gorgeous score... the show left me twinkling like a Christmas tree.” – Star Tribune
“If you're hankering for a fix from the fifties, White Christmas is the perfect gift.” – Roma Torre, NY1
“You'll go home happy. A sure-fire seasonal musical. I don't see how anyone who loves Broadway musicals can fail to be pleased by so polished and ingenious a show. The songs are out of Berlin’s top drawer.” – The Wall Street Journal
“Glistens with irresistible, snow-topped charm.” – The GuardianVideos
Show Clips: White Christmas
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2019 West End Trailer
Photos
Image: 2024 Paper Mill Playhouse Production (Jeremy Daniel)
Image: 2024 Paper Mill Playhouse Production (Jeremy Daniel)
Image: 2023 Bucks County Playhouse Production (Joan Marcus)
Image: 2019 US National Tour Production (Jeremy Daniel)
Image: 2008 Broadway Production (Joan Marcus)
Music
Music Samples
- Musical Style Classic Broadway
- Dance Requirements Moderate
- Vocal DemandsModerate
- Orchestra Size Large
- Chorus Size Large
Licensing & Materials
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Music Rentals
Add-Ons
Authors
Irving Berlin
With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasts over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” Berlin wrote scores to 13 Broadway musicals, ...
Norman Krasna
Norman Panama
Norman Panama (1914-2003) was a writer, director and producer whose long collaboration with Melvin Frank resulted in a string of memorable film credits that include The Road to Utopia, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and White Christmas.
Panama and Frank produced and co- ...
Melvin Frank
David Ives
Paul Blake
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