This year’s Broadway Rose Christmas show is largely a rehashing of the company’s 2008 holiday revue, Celebrate Home. It’s a fine thing. That show was a refreshing antidote to the tired camp that fills most of America’s stages each December. It was funny, sincere and exceptionally well performed. Two members of that cast (Amy Beth Frankel and Anne McKee Reed) are back this year, along with all of the very funny songs director Abe Reybold and his writing partner, Jay Tumminello penned for Celebrate Home. They’ve added a few more numbers this year, including a seasonal affective disorder-inspired rewrite of “My Favorite Things” and “Joy to the Burbs,” a half-serious paean to life beyond Southwest 65th Avenue. Don’t like funny? Maybe cute kids and jazzy arrangements of carols will get you in the door. No? How ’bout Sara Catherine Wheatley in a slinky, sequined evening gown?

Where: Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre
Phone: 620-5262
Address: 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard
Website: www.broadwayrose.org