Hanukah's miracle of a single day's worth of oil lasting eight nights gets some strong, modern-day competition from a new musical revue consisting entirely of original holiday songs. To borrow a phrase from Fiddler on the Roof, "That was a miracle, too." But perhaps the most amazing thing about the York Theatre Company's That Time of the Year is that so much of it has the aspect of a fresh snowfall rather than yesterday's slush.

True, there's the occasional banal, Hallmark-ish moment, and the title tune simply skims along the surface of the season like a toboggan heading downhill. But the vast majority of the songs cover the familiar touchstones of the holiday season with wit and style.

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