(BEACH HAVEN, NJ) -- Surflight Theatre presents Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn from November 28 through December 20, 2026. The beloved film classic comes to the stage in a charming crowd-pleaser featuring one glorious Irving Berlin number after another, each celebrating a different festivity.
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn tells the story of Jim, who leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his farm in Connecticut… but life just isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the comedy and a parade of hit Irving Berlin songs, including “Blue Skies”, “Easter Parade”, “Steppin’ Out With My Baby”, “Heat Wave”, “White Christmas” and many more!
The film Holiday Inn, directed by Mark Sandrich, premiered on August 4, 1942, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds and Walter Abel. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for "White Christmas") and Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and Best Original Story (Irving Berlin).
The stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn opened on Broadway at Studio 54 on October 6, 2016, starring Bryce Pinkham, Corbin Bleu, Laura Lee Gayer and Megan Sikora.
Performances take place at 2:00pm on November 28,29, December 2,3,5,6,8,10,12,13,16,17,19,20 amd at 7:30pm on November 28, December 4,5,12,18,19. Tickets are available for purchase online. The theater is located at 201 Engleside Avenue in Beach Haven, New Jersey.
With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasts over 1,000 songs, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) epitomized Jerome Kern’s famous maxim that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.” Berlin wrote scores to 13 Broadway musicals, contributed to seven revues, wrote songs for 12 classic Hollywood movie musicals and created many of the most well-known popular songs of the 20th century. Born in Russia, he immigrated to the Lower East Side, where he started as a singing waiter and soon became a lyricist, composer and music publisher. An intuitive businessman, Irving Berlin was a co-founder of ASCAP, founder of his own music publishing company and builder of the Music Box Theatre to house his Music Box Revues. For his paean to his beloved country, “God Bless America,” he established a fund which receives all revenue for the song and distributes it to the Boy and Girl Scouts.
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