Mrs. Santa Claus is a 1996 television musical starring Angela Lansbury as the wife of Santa Claus. The musical score for Mrs. Santa Claus was written by Jerry Herman, the celebrated Broadway composer of such hit musicals as Hello, Dolly!.
The movie is set in December, 1910. Mrs. Santa Claus is trying to convince her husband, Santa Claus, (Charles Durning) to take a new route, but he is preoccupied with the Christmas rush and won't listen. Disgrun...
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Mrs. Santa Claus is a 1996 television musical starring Angela Lansbury as the wife of Santa Claus. The musical score for Mrs. Santa Claus was written by Jerry Herman, the celebrated Broadway composer of such hit musicals as Hello, Dolly!.
The movie is set in December, 1910. Mrs. Santa Claus is trying to convince her husband, Santa Claus, (Charles Durning) to take a new route, but he is preoccupied with the Christmas rush and won't listen. Disgruntled, she takes the sleigh out herself, but is forced to land in New York City, where she is stranded when one of the reindeer (Cupid) becomes injured. As "Mrs. North", she takes up board with a family of Jewish immigrants, who don't celebrate Christmas. She befriends many of the locals and becomes involved with political issues of the period such as child labor and women's suffrage.
The movie was broadcast on CBS television on December 8, 1996 in the USA, and was not shown in the UK until 2000, when it was broadcast on December 22. The movie...
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