~ We Need A Little Christmas Fanlisting ~

Winter Gardens Theatre, Broadway and Broadway Theatre - May 24, 1966-1970 (1508 performances)
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London - 20 February, 1969 (443 performances)

Book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee : Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman.
Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play, Auntie Mame by Lawrence and Lee.

In the musical Mame, the title role character (performed by Angela Lansbury - Tony Award Best Actress) had a lot of bad luck. The stock market crashed, leaving her broke and her tries at jobs all turn out a disaster.
To lighten the desperate mood, Mame proclaims instant Christmas, though it's early December.
I think this song puts you right in the Christmas mood :)

We Need A Little Christmas

Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
Fill up the stocking,
I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
It hasn't snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry;
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen.
Slice up the fruitcake;
It's time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For I've grown a little leaner,
Grown a little colder,
Grown a little sadder,
Grown a little older,
All:
And I need a little angel
Sitting on my shoulder,
Need a little Christmas now.
Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Well, once I taught you all to live each living day.
All:
Fill up the stocking,
Young Patrick:
But Auntie Man, it's one week from Thanksgiving Day now.
All:
But we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
Agnes:
It hasn't snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry;
Ito:
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen.
All:
Slice up the fruitcake;
It's time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For we need a little music,
Need a little laughter,
Need a little singing
Ringing through the rafter,
And we need a little snappy
"Happy ever after,"
Need a little Christmas now.
Need a little Christmas now.