Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, 2008

The run closed January 4, 2009

Opened

November 23, 2008

Closed

January 4, 2009

Performances

53

Previews

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Theatre

Marquis Theatre

Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 295th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas 1 more that season

Who was in it28 named

Cliff Bemis
Sheffield Chastain
Stephen Carrasco
Sae la Chin
Margot de la Barre
Anne Horak
Drew Humphrey
Wendy James
Amy Justman
Matthew Kirk
Jarran Muse
Alessa Neeck
Shannon O Bryan
Con O Shea Creal
Kiira Schmidt
Chad Seib
Kelly Sheehan
Katherine Tokarz
Kevin Worley

9 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Walter Bobbie

Choreographer

Randy Skinner

Producer

Kevin McCollum, John Gore, Tom McGrath, Paul Blake, the Producing Office, Dan Markley, Sonny Everett, and Broadway Across America (John Gore: CEO; Thomas B. McGrath: Chairman; Beth Williams: COO & Head of Production); produced in association with Paramount Pictures Corporation

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

Top left: Tony Yazbeck and Mara Davi in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Opened at the Marquis Theatre November 22, 2009 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 20

• I was particularly excited to meet Leonard Lopate of WNYC! And Tommy Tune came backstage! The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 166
• Stephen Bogardus has had some funny lyric moments. My favorite is when he sang an alternate lyric in “Sisters.” The lyric is “She wore the dress and I stayed home.” He sang “She wrote the book and I called home.” What makes it particularly funny, though, is that Kate Baldwin heard about it (she played Betty in San Fran… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 167
• Favorite Therapy: Reflexology sessions generously donated by David Ogden Stiers. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2009 To May 2010 Sixth Viagas Robert New Yor, p. 171
• Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Ghost: The Musical, Leap of Faith, Bring It On, Elf, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Kinky Boots, Big Fish and Rocky, The Musical. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 287
• Irving Berlin’s White Christmas was adapted from the 1954 movie. Put together primarily as a tour, the production made two A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 296

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at all.
• No show page for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.