The Holiday Music Fest 2023
Since it is now officially 12 days to Christmas, I figured what better time to post the song "Twelve Days to Christmas" from the 1963 musical, She Loves Me. The show has a score by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who (among their many shows) the next year wrote Fiddler on the Roof.
She Loves Me is based on the Hungarian play (and its subsequent Hollywood movie, Shop Around the Corner) which were the foundation of the movie You've Got Mail. If you've seen any of those, this song comes near the end to show the passage of time as Mr. Novak tries to build up his relationship with Amelia Balish, with whom he had long been sniping, but only recently discovered has been his pen pal with who he's in love. While on the album here the song is only a chorus number, on stage it's interwoven with snippets of that developing relationship.
I used to post footage from the 1993 Roundabout Theatre Broadway revival that starred Judy Kuhn and Boyd Gaines, however that video doesn't seem to be available anymore. But -- good news, I found a montage reel with six songs from that production, plus the curtain call, and it included "Twelve Days to Christmas"...so I edited it to get the song, finale and curtain call and can offer them here.
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