A beloved show will open the holiday season in Canonsburg.
The Little Lake Theater Company is presenting “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin, a perennial Christmas favorite. It first appeared as a film in 1954, starring Bing Crosby, Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney; in 2000, it made its debut as a stage production.
The story centers on two veterans, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who become successful in show business after World War II. They and the Haynes Sisters meet Wallace and Davis’s former commanding officer at his Vermont resort and arrange for his troops to surprise him there.
The plot is lightweight and critics seem evenly divided on it, but the film was a hit, the highest grossing of 1954, with the songs a vital part of the movie. “White Christmas,” the title song, first appeared in the film “Holiday Inn,” and won the Oscar in 1942 for Best Original Song.
The stage adaptation follows the same plot, but with some of the songs from the film deleted and new ones added. The stage version premiered in St. Louis in 2000 and ran on Broadway in 2008, 2009-2010.
“White Christmas” opens December 3, at 7.30 p.m. at the Canon Theatre. Tickets are $32 for adults and $22 for youth in the first 288 seats, and $30 for adults and $20 for youth in the last 288 seats. Shows like this can benefit from the publicity they receive when organizers use poster printing to create advertisements for them.
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1003 Waterdam Plaza Drive
Canonsburg, PA 15317
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Mon: 8:30 - 5:00
Tue: 8:30 - 5:00
Wed: 8:30 - 5:00
Thu: 8:30 - 5:00
Fri: 8:30 - 5:00
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed