BWW's 12 Days of Christmas with Jennifer Ashley Tepper- Molly Hager & Joe Iconis Tell a Christmas Fairytale

Deck the halls, trim the tree, and spin the dreidel. BroadwayWorld is continuing our tradition of celebrating the holiday season with a special countdown. This year we've invited Director of Programming at Feinstein's/54 Below and author of The Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 1 and Volume 2, Jennifer Ashley Tepper to share her favorites holiday performances. Check back daily to get in the holiday spirit in time for December 25 and to find out what else made her list!

This is one of my top 3 favorite Christmas songs ever. My friends and collaborators Molly Hager and Joe Iconis have been rocking this tune by The Pogues in the Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular for the better part of a decade, and tomorrow we begin our 8th Annual show (http://54below.com/artist/joe-iconis-family/)! I can't wait for them to wail out "Fairy Tale of New York" because at this point, at least half the audience always knows it and is singing along and waving their drinks in the air by the end!

"They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me."

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