<cite>A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration</cite>, reviewed by Lawrence Switzky

Paula Vogel's <cite>A Civil War Christmas</cite>, the holiday offering at the Huntington Theater, is a grandly, even madly ambitious, event. On Christmas Eve, 1864, we career from the battlefields of northern Virginia (full of African-American soldiers) to Mary Todd Lincoln hunting down a Bavarian-style Christmas tree, to a little girl lost in the snow while fleeing imaginary slave-catchers. This is a noble step towa…

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