When temperamental Broadway director Vera Parks (Melissa Gilbert) is fired from yet
another job, she has become unemployable in Manhattan so when she gets an offer
to direct a Christmas pageant somewhere upstate, she has no alternative but to
take the gig.
But she comes into conflict with all the cast, who are all
traditionalists, when Vera wants to change everything.
She is also
reacquainted with former beau Jack Harmon (Robert Mailhouse) which she was not expecting,
and the former love is slowly rekindled as the rehearsals continue and then she begins
to form relationships with the cast and understanding of each other’s points of
views and appreciation of their positions lead to compromises being made.
