Holiday Inn
Opening Night: October 6, 2016
Closing: January 15, 2017
Theater: Studio 54
“Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical” tells the story of Jim, who leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his farmhouse in Connecticut. He quickly discovers life isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the Fourth of July. But when Jim’s best friend Ted tries to lure Linda away to be his new dance partner in Hollywood, will Jim be able to salvage his latest chance at love?
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October 6, 2016
The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year, it is often noted — or lamented. Will we soon be hearing sleigh bells in spring? This year, the Roundabout Theater Company has obliged all whose hearts are already pining for candy canes and mistletoe by presenting “Holiday Inn,” a perky but bland stage adaptation of the 1942 movie that is fondly remembered for Bing Crosby’s crooning “White Christmas,” which has been a seasonal favorite ever since.
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October 6, 2016
“Holiday Inn,” which is subtitled “The New Irving Berlin Musical” (never mind that Mr. Berlin died in 1989), is essentially a remake of a remake of a remake. It is based on the 1942 holiday-themed movie musical of the same name, which starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and featured a dozen songs by Berlin including “White Christmas.” A decade later, “Holiday Inn” was redeveloped into the better-known film “White Christmas,” which also starred Crosby and had songs by Berlin.
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October 6, 2016
If you’re in the mood for show that’s light-on-its-feet and wall-to-wall Irving Berlin, check into Broadway’s “Holiday Inn.”
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October 6, 2016
The thought has fanned many a flame in a stage-trouper breast: “Show business could be the solution!” That crazy hope suddenly strikes crooner Jim Hardy (Bryce Pinkham) as a way to save the rickety Connecticut farmhouse he bought to escape…wouldn’t ya know: showbiz. Jim invites a mob of dancers, singers and chorus kids to put on splashy routines devoted to Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Christmas and the rest. That slim premise is all you need to grasp Holiday Inn, the 1942 Bing Crosby–Fred Astaire movie musical that book writer–director Gordon Greenberg has renovated and refurbished as a seasonal stage attraction.
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October 6, 2016
Holiday Inn sets the Broadway musical back 75 years. I doubt anyone will be complaining. An exuberant, shamelessly old-fashioned tap-and-tuner presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at its Studio 54 theater, this adaptation of the 1942 Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire Paramount film is an endorphin assault, inducing warm-bath pleasure like no other show since 42nd Street. The dancing is spectacular, the singing sublime, the visuals are ingenious and, almost incidentally, there’s the cataract of Irving Berlin songs that includes his sole Oscar winner, “White Christmas.”
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