Set & Costume Design by Olivia Du Monceau
Musical Director & Orchestrations by George Francis
Lighting Designby Paul Keogan
Sound Design by Ian Davies

Premiered December 2019 at Liverpool Playhouse

Conjure up the perfect Christmas. Think of tinsel and tingles, whispers and wishes, those thrilling hours when childhood dreams take flight. Now imagine if Christmas was all common sense. No whispers, no secrets. Just cold hard facts wrapped in paper destined for the bin.

That’s Christmas for sensible six-year-old Susan and her mother. But as New York’s cash tills ring out their money-making chimes and shoppers join a race that lasts from Thanksgiving until New Year, an old bearded gentleman turns their rational world – and the city’s cut-throat commercial spirit – upside down.

'Tom Jackson Greaves’s choreography whisk us from department store to courtroom via points in between, while the hyperactive, all-singing, all-dancing, multi-role-playing cast sends us out into a dark winter’s night with the feeling that, in the words of the most enduring song of the piece, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”.
The Guardian

★★★★★
“Slick and joyful production.”
The i

★★★★
"full of snow, big smiles and seasonal joy"
Liverpool Echo