Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas

Matt Roush says...

“Welcome to my festive extravaganza,” beckons a glamorous Hannah Waddingham, best known to TV audiences as Ted Lasso’s team owner Rebecca, but before that she was a regular on London’s musical theater stages. She belts, dances and clowns (often with her Ted Lasso chums) in a classic music-variety holiday special from the cavernous London Coliseum, where her mom once performed in the chorus of the English National Opera. That chorus backs her up one “O Holy Night,” and the London Gay Men’s Chorus performs similar duties. Special guests include Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr., Luke Evans, Eurovision finalist Sam Ryder and Lasso’s Phil Dunster showing his own song-and-dance chops. When Waddingham sings, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” after her third costume change, it’s hard to argue. Go, diva!

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