Season of Light: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir

PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):

Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 8 PM 
Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 1 AM
Friday, Dec. 22, at 9 PM
Saturday, Dec. 23, at 2 AM

The beloved annual “Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir” holiday special returns this December for its 20th televised year with Tony® Award-winning Disney and Broadway star Lea Salonga (“Mulan,” “Miss Saigon”) and world-renowned screen and stage actor Sir David Suchet (“Agatha Christie’s Poirot”). For the 90-minute special, Salonga joins The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in singing favorite holiday tunes as well as performing a World War II-era song in Tagalog, “Payapang Daigdig,” to honor her Filipina heritage. As the evening’s narrator, Suchet powerfully recounts the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who worked tirelessly in the months before World War II to save endangered Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, orchestrating the safe passage of 669 refugees, with a known posterity of 6,000. Combining timeless music with real-life examples of sharing light, it is a universally moving program that invites hope and welcomes the spirit of sharing goodness this holiday season.