First look production images are released for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas which is playing at The Mill at Sonning over the festive season.
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.
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, with additional Irving Berlin songs added, opened on Broadway in 2008, after several successful engagements throughout the United States. Directed by Walter Bobbie, the show was an audience favourite and it returned to Broadway the following year.
Cast: Jason Jajdi, Connor Hughes, Gabriella Williams, Nic Myers, Mark Curry,Shirley Jameson, Natasha Cayabyab, Shem Omari James, Greta McKinnon, Eleanor Walsh, Elliot Allinson, Lewis Rae, Grace Chan, Jack Speck.
