So now we Christmas! Now we Holiday Broadway! If you can't cue up White Christmas melodies on December 24th, when can you? So come this Sunday, all Xmas breaks out and we do Mame, She Loves Me, the stage and film version of White Christmas...and divas like Babs and Liza and Bernadette and Pearl, all with winter and bells and memories and MONEY on their Christmas-y little minds. We do esoteric, as well, like Kander and Ebb's Starting Here, Starting Now, Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World, and the flop (gotta have a flop on 2 On The Aisle!) Here's Love...Meredith Willson's musical take on Miracle On 34th Street. No Natalie. No Edmund. No Maureen. That sunk it. !!!
And then I admit to going completely off the Broadway rails to sample Christmas Dragnet, some Tom Lehrer, and a dose of Sherman (gotta get that transistor radio from Santa SOME year!).
So prepare your turkey ("Lurkey"), watch out the window for "Snow!", wear some holiday "Plaid", suck on some "Hard Candy" (from last year's stocking?), and "Let Yourself Go!"
...and here's to a "Cool Yule!"
Happy Holiday/Let Yourself Go (Brian d'Arcy James, Jeffrey Denman,
Ensemble, Irving Berlin's White Christmas)
Overture To White Christmas (Instrumental, Irving Berlin's White Christmas)
We Need A Little Christmas (Angela Lansbury, Ensemble, Mame)
Be A Santa (Sydney Chaplin, Subways Are For Sleeping)
Turkey Lurkey Time (Ensemble, Promises, Promises)
Snow (Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
Sisters (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (Danny Kaye, White
Christmas)
Count Your Blessings (Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
Love You Didn't Do Right By Me (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
White Christmas (Company, White Christmas)
Twelve Days To Christmas (Ensemble, She Loves Me)
That Man Over There (Paul Reed, Here's Love)
Christmas Day (Ensemble, Promises, Promises)
Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Laurence Naismith, Here's Love)
Christmas Time Is Here (Ensemble, A Charlie Brown Christmas)
Ring Them Bells (Liza Minelli, Liza With A 'Z')
Surabaya Santa (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)
A Five Pound Box Of Money (Pearl Bailey)
Nothin' For Christmas (Eartha Kitt)
Hard Candy Christmas (Ensemble, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas)
I Don't Remember Christmas (George Lee Andrews, Starting Here,
Starting Now)
Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of Year (Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit,
Catch Me If You Can)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Bernadette Peters)
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Leslie Odom, Jr., Simply Christmas)
Christmas Mem'ries (Barbra Streisand, Christmas Memories)
Three Wishes For Christmas (Tony Yazbek, Gypsy)
Talk Christmas, Cool Yule (David Engle, Paul Binotto, Larry Raben,
Holiday In Plaid)
Lovers On Christmas Eve (Joanna Gleason, James Naughton, I Love My Wife)
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom
Lehrer)
Catered Holiday Affair (David Engle, Ensemble, Holiday In Plaid)
Christmas Dragnet (Stan Freeberg, Daws Butler)
The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas (Allan Sherman, For Swingin' Livers Only!)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland, Meet Me In
St. Louis)
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