Synopsis
One of the most well known holiday songs of all time, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" depicts the dream of a perfect Christmas—one filled with snow. And in the hands of fantasy artist Michael Hague, it's also filled with snow fairies, reindeer, woodland creatures, sleigh rides, Santa Claus, and more. As you turn the pages and read the lyrics, you'll be swept away into a magical Christmas fairyland that is sure to make your holiday merry and bright.
The classic Yuletide ballad that has been spreading Christmas spirit since the 1940s is made new again in this enchanting holiday picture book with illustrations as fresh and beautiful as a winter snowfall.
About Irving Berlin
See more books from this AuthorThe cover illustration shows a huge snow globe filled with fantasy characters: Santa, elves, reindeer, a polar bear and a mysterious snow monster.
| Read Full Review of White ChristmasHague's distinctive and beguiling interpretation of Berlin's beloved song eschews Coca-Cola Santas, gingerbread men, and modern kiddies for a Nordic fairy tale wonderland of elves, sprites, and shaggy
Oct 18 2010 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasInstead, she has been squeezed into the role of the desk clerk at the Columbia Inn in Vermont, a role originated by the brilliantly spinsterly Mary Wickes in the 1954 movie musical “White Christmas,” on which this show is based.
Dec 02 2011 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasWhite Christmas: The Story of a Song by Jody Rosen Fourth Estate £12.99, pp214 You might not know this, but Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' may be the most palpable hit of all hit songs.
Dec 15 2002 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasThe play has most of the classic musical numbers from the movie, with expanded and additional music by Irving Berlin, including “Blue Skies,” “I Love a Piano,” “How Deep is the Ocean,” “Let Me Sing and I’m Happy,” and “Falling Out of Love Can be Fun.” Minor roles from the movie have also been exp...
Dec 12 2009 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasThe song, along with 18 other unforgettable Berlin tunes (White Christmas, Blue Skies, etc.), is featured in a marvelous finale in the Paper Mill Playhouse's spectacular production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.
Nov 21 2011 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasThis show, with a new book by David Ives and Paul Blake, has toured the country and played Broadway during the holiday season in recent years.
Nov 30 2011 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasBut then the Denver Center Theatre Company's "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" comes with a number of them.
Dec 06 2012 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasThe plot, a piece of harmless 1950s kitsch, focuses on two former Army buddies, Bob Wallace (James Clow in the Crosby role) and Phil Davis (David Elder in the role originated by Kaye), who — in the 10 years since they first performed together from the back of a USO truck — have become a song-and-...
Nov 22 2012 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasIrving Berlin’s White Christmas will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday, 1 and 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ohio Theatre, 39 E.
Nov 21 2012 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasEven with the Berlin songs and Kaye's dancing, the Paramount team, under dialogue-oriented director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), can't compete with golden-age Hollywood musicals like Singin' in the Rain that feature a deft pace and fleet feet.
Nov 16 2006 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasBY: Steve Cohen 11.28.2010 You’ve heard about shows where you come out of the theater humming the songs?
Nov 28 2010 | Read Full Review of White Christmas"White Christmas," the Irving Berlin musical based on the 1954 movie that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney, is chockful of holiday songs we all know so well, along with endearing performances by a strong cast, smartly directed and choreographed by Rick Kerby.
Dec 02 2011 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasThe workman-like plot has song-and-dance men Bob Wallace (Clow) and Phil Davis (Yazbeck) repairing to a Vermont inn -- now being run by their World War II general (the appealing David Ogden Stiers) and former entertainer Martha Watson (a brash Ruth Williamson) -- in aid of the performing Haynes s...
Nov 24 2009 | Read Full Review of White ChristmasHollis is remarkably unaffected and honest for her - or any - age, finding virtue and newness in gags and aww-eliciting moments that would have been pushing the envelope in the 1950s - and not in a good way.
Nov 23 2008 | Read Full Review of White Christmas