Holiday Inn BROADWAY REVIEWS

• NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Holiday Inn

  

  ‘Holiday Inn’: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Recycled Movie

  Charles Isherwood

  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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• DEADLINE REVIEW OF Holiday Inn

  

  Irving Berlin’s ‘Holiday Inn’ Sleighs ‘Em In Times Square

  Jeremy Gerard

  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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• TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF Holiday Inn

  

  Theater review: Holiday Inn brings a White Christmas to Broadway

  David Cote

  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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• NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF Holiday Inn

  

  'Holiday Inn' with Corbin Bleu opens on Broadway

  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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• AM NEW YORK REVIEW OF Holiday Inn

  

  ‘Holiday Inn’ review: Broadway remake misses the mark

  Matt Windman

  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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