One long weekend, I went back to my hometown of Greenville, SC and went to see White Christmas: The Musical at The Peace Center, with my mother. This play was a rendition of the 1954 film White Christmas. After leaving the Army after WWII, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General. I expected this play to be filled with more Christmas or Winter themed songs, but in reality the characters mostly sung songs about love or coming out of the war. The costumes in this play were very authentic looking. The costume designer must have done plenty of research to learn what kinds of outfits people wore after WWII. Most of this play was spoken words compared to the amount of songs sung. I didn't really enjoy the musical as much as I thought I was going to.
The taking of photographs was not allowed during the play. Therefore, I took a picture of the backdrop that was shown before the play and during intermission. 
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