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Based on Paramount Pictures\u2019 classic 1954 film \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d (itself loosely based on a 1942 film titled \u201cHoliday Inn\u201d), the stage musical takes place between 1944 and 1954, during and just following WWII. Originated in 2004 in San Francisco, the stage musical has a book by David Ives and Paul Blake. Its glory and raison d\u2019etre is the score, which features 17 Berlin tunes, including the title song, \u201cHappy Holiday,\u201d \u201cSisters,\u201d \u201cCount Your Blessings Instead of Sheep,\u201d \u201cBlue Skies,\u201d \u201cI Love a Piano,\u201d Love, You Didn\u2019t Do Right by Me,\u201d and \u201cHow Deep Is the Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n
Produced by SDMT, \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d is directed by Todd Nielsen and features a splendid onstage band conducted by Don Le Master. The company of 29 singers\/dancers includes a quartet of band singers. Two of four leads repeat their roles: Jeffrey Scott Parsons as Phil, and Todd DuBail as Bob, Allison Spratt Pearce, who sang Maria in SDMT’s recent “Sound of Music,” makes her role debut as Betty. Debuting as Betty’s sister, Judy, is Tro Shaw. Shaw and Parsons are a good team. So are Pearce and DuBail, both excellent vocally.<\/p>\n Bob and Phil were army buddies under the command of Gen. Henry Waverly (Ed Hollingsworth). After the war, they went straight to the top as a song and dance team. Bob is a kind of antisocial type and Phil an indefatigable ladies man. Hoping to change the status quo and bring a little love into Bob\u2019s life, Phil arranges for them to catch the act of singing sisters Betty and Judy. Phil already has an eye for Judy, and despite himself, Bob falls in love with Betty. Phil and Bob are headed for a holiday rehearsals in Florida, but unknown to Bob, Phil arranges for the two of them to follow the femmes to Vermont, where the sisters are set to entertain at a ski lodge owned by Gen. Waverly, who was a much better general than he is lodge owner. There is no snow but romance ensues, with complications of course.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a feel-good show, replete with tunes, singers, lots of big tap numbers (Lisa Hopkins\u2019 choreography as restaged by Keenon Hooks), Janet Pitcher\u2019s fetching costumes, Matthew Novotny\u2019s lighting and un-credited sound design, which works well except when the stage curtain is closed. As always, Berlin\u2019s infectious score trumps everything, taking the cake, er, Christmas tree. Truly, \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d is just the thing to put the whole family in the holiday spirit.<\/p>\n \u2014\u00a0Charlene Baldridge has been writing about the arts since 1979. Her book \u201cSan Diego, Jewel of the California Coast\u201d (Northland Publishing) is currently available in bookstores. She can be reached at <\/i>charb81@gmail.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Por Charlene Baldridge | Revisi\u00f3n de teatro<\/p>","protected":false},"author":731,"featured_media":248133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"A final White Christmas at North Park Theatre","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Todd](\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1web-300x240.jpg\")
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<\/a>Karla J. Franko endears herself as Waverly\u2019s hotel manager, Martha Watson. Ten-year old Claire Scheper once again portrays Martha\u2019s scene-stealing niece. The entire company arrives from Florida and a show is planned in Waverly\u2019s barn.<\/p>\n