If Only in my Dreams

If Only In My Dreams, a premiere American Century Theater musical revue featuring the songs, stories and bittersweet emotions of the Christmas Seasons during the Second World War

For America, the Holidays during World War Two were a stressful and confounding mixture of hope, fear, and longing. The poignant emotions of those holidays are captured in The American Century Theater’s new holiday musical revue, If Only in My Dreams, an installment of TACT’s “Reflections” series, which features new works about important people and events of the 20th Century.

If Only In My Dreams is the last phrase of the 1943 Christmas classic, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” a song that powerfully captured the yearning for family felt during a period when the ultimate victory over the Axis powers was not yet known. Holiday songs of the period were tinged with sadness, such as “Blue Christmas”, “You’re All I Want for Christmas”, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and the Irving Berlin classic, “White Christmas.” If Only in My Dreams features these and less familiar songs from a rich catalogue of war years music, such as the haunting “Snowfall,” “The Christmas Spell”, and the Spike Jones novelty, “All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth.”

Rotating with Mister Roberts.