Just Like the Ones You Used to Know: Song, Dance and Fluffy White Endings
Charles IsherwoodNovember 24, 2008: Given the grim tidings from everywhere these days, a longing for the seasonal comforts of happier yesteryears is understandable. Still, you’d have to be in a desperately, even pathologically nostalgic mood — trawling the Internet in the wee hours for VHS copies of Lawrence Welk holiday specials, say — to derive much joy from the stage retread of “White Christmas,” a synthetically cozy trip down memory lane.
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