Judy's Scary Little Christmas: AOL Digital City Review

AOL DIGITAL CITY

12/5/02

JUDY'S SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

Live from Television City in Hollywood, it's Judy Garland's 1959 Christmas special! That's the conceit behind this hilariously deranged holiday musical from writers James Webber and David Church ('The Showstoppers') and composer Joe Patrick Ward (last season's hysterical 'Grave White Way'). Judy is staging a comeback and has invited pals like Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Joan Crawford to appear on her Christmas show. Little things start to go wrong, on and off-camera, and when Vice President Richard Nixon and longtime lefty Lillian Hellman show up (singing 'Are You Now or Have You Ever Been In Love?'), things really get dicey. Ultimately, an unexpected visitor shows up to send the whole enterprise into an otherworldly place, where each of the fading stars must face their demons.

-- Christopher Cappiello

Arts & Culture: Comedy, Theater