White Christmas meets Nora Ephron in Jenny Bayliss' latest wholehearted ensemble-cast holiday
extravaganza. Christmas can officially get stuffed because Harriet Smith is not feeling bright
and merry this year. She hasn't for a while. So when her college-aged daughter opts for
Manhattan's winter wonderland instead of Christmas at home Harriet finds herself seeking
solace in a wine-soaked one-night stand. But how Harriet will spend the holidays is swiftly
decided for her after she takes the fall for some students who break into the town's old Winter
Theater. To get the students off the hook the theater's elderly owner requests that Harriet
direct the washed-out stage's final Christmas performance. And Harriet will do anything to help
the kids . . . even work with the owner's lawyer who as it turns out is her less than
impressed one-night stand. Directing the play with him won't exactly change her life. But it
might just reignite the Christmas spirit and remind her what makes life merry and bright again.
