Heres a Happy Holiday Greeting from Broadway. In 1981, Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner Andrea McArdle [Annie, Jerrys Girls, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast, State Fair and as The Legendary Judy Garland in the film Rainbow] co-hosted New Yorks annual Christmas at Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony with TV anchorman Chuck Scarborough. A highlight of that event was a medley of Irving Berlins holiday classics Happy Holidays and White Christmas performed by McArdle and fellow Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner Walter Willison [Two By Two, Norman, Is That You?, Wild and Wonderful, Pippin, Grand Hotel, A Christmas Carol, Kean and as Legendary Ziegfeld star Frank Carter in the film Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women], Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner Debbie Gravitte then known as Debbie Shapiro [Jerome Robbins Broadway, Theyre Playing Our Song, Perfectly Frank, Blues in the Night, Zorba, Les Miserables, Aint Broadway Grand, Chicago and as The Legendary Eydie Gorme in the film Isnt She Great] and Terry Burrell [Dreamgirls, Honky Tonk Nights, Into the Woods, Swinging On a Star, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Threepenny Opera]. At the time, the four performers were headlining in They Say Its Wonderful: The Music of Irving Berlin, the hit 1981 revue at The King Cole Room of The St. Regis Hotel.
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