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1. | Be a Santa (from Subways Are For Sleeping) | Michelle Nicastro | 2:54 |
2. | Christmas Eve (cut from She Loves Me) | Yvette Lawrence | 3:04 |
3. | Pine Cones and Holly Berries/It's Beginning to Loo | Glory Crampton | 4:06 |
4. | Turkey Lurkey Time (from Promises, Promises) | Debbie Shapiro Gravitte | 3:26 |
5. | Christmas Gifts (from It's A Wonderful Life) | Jason Graae | 2:54 |
6. | That Man over There (from Here's Love) | Lindsay Ridgeway | 2:28 |
7. | Hard Candy Christmas (from The Best Little Whoreho | Lynn Wintersteller | 3:42 |
8. | Christmas Child (from Irma La Douce) | Gregory Jbarra / Ron Raines / Lee Wilkof | 2:36 |
9. | I Thank You for Your Love (from The Mummer's Play) | Laurie Beechman | 3:47 |
10. | I Don't Remember Christmas (from Starting Here, St | Harry Groener | 3:03 |
11. | We Need a Little Christmas (from Mame) | Lynnette Perry | 4:43 |
12. | Greenwillow Christmas (from Green Willow) | Roy Chicas | 3:14 |
13. | Lovers on Christmas Eve (from I Love My Wife) | Liz Larsen | 3:37 |
14. | The Happy New Year Blues (from The Music Box Revue | Vicki Lewis | 3:15 |
15. | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (from Meet | Liz Callaway | 4:18 |
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This unique and wonderful Christmas album is full of holiday songs written specifically for plays and musicals. Recorded with sparkling new arrangements and a full orchestra, these gems were written by such Broadway legends as Irving Berlin, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Frank Loesser, Meredith Wilson, Jerry Herman, Jule Styne, Comden and Green, Cy Coleman, Bock and Harnich, Maltby and Shire and Schmidt and Jones.
This one-of-a-kind Christmas collection features holiday standards, as well as unknown material. One of the highlights on this recording is the World Premiere Recording of Irving Berlin´s The Happy New Year Blues, from THE MUSIC BOX REVUE: Other rarities include Christmas Eve, a song cut from the Tony Award-winning musical SHE LOVES ME and Christmas Gifts, the first recording of this song from the musical version of the classic, IT´S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
These songs are performed by a host of Broadway's most dazzling talent including: Tony Award-winner Debbie Shapiro Gravitte (Jerome Robbins´Broadway), Tony Award-nominee Liz Callaway (Cats, Miss Saigon), Tony Award-nominee Harry Groener (Crazy For You), Tony Award-nominee Laurie Beechman (Cats, Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat, Les Miserables), Jason Graae (Forever Plaid), Vicki Lewis (Damn Yankees), Michelle Nicastro (Toonful CD) and child star, Lindsay Ridgeway (Ruthless!).
This album of Christmas and holiday cheer brings you the best of Broadway's past and present. A 'must have' for collectors and Christmas lovers alike !!!