Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
BroadwayHD Streaming HolidayInn to raise money for Actor's Fund. Please consider supporting The Actors Fund and its efforts to assist those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic: ActorsFund.org/HolidayInn
The streaming service BroadwayHD, which offers an impressive selection of high-quality theater recordings at a very reasonable price, streams a sampler for free: the cheerily old-fashioned 2016 musical Holiday Inn, built around sturdy load-bearing standards by Irving Berlin (including “Cheek to Cheek,” “Blue Skies,” “Heat Wave” and “White Christmas”). The show follows the same story as the 1942 movie, which starred Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby: A showbiz type turns a sleepy Connecticut farmhouse into a song-and-dance destination. Gordon Greenberg, who also wrote the book with Chad Hodge, directs a cast that includes Bryce Pinkham, Corbin Bleu, Lora Lee Gayer, Megan Sikora, Danny Rutigliano and Megan Lawrence. BroadwayHD recorded the show itself during its run at Studio 54, using 14 cameras, so the quality of the capture is strong. Donations to the Actors Fund are encouraged.