During the Christmas season, lots of theaters put on productions of A Christmas Carol. That is part of the plot of Lifetime’s A Show-Stopping Christmas. Unfortunately, we don’t get to see a lot of the play itself. Only the production part.

Riley (Jamie Perez) is the director for a local production of A Christmas Carol. The theater owner, Regina (Maureen Keiller), wants to sell the theater to a condo developer. Riley teams up with Regina’s nephew, soap opera actor Sam (Thomas McDonnell), to keep the theater open and alive.

A Show-Stopping Christmas was annoyingly boring. There are tons of way that they could have made a theater buy-out interesting and the writers went the completely opposite way. Even worse, they made Riley a sort of kn0w-it-all. Every time someone had an idea to change Regina’s mind, Riley would either have something to make it better or a completely different idea they would use instead. It would have been nice to see the other characters be useful.

I would toss this movie into the Do Not Watch pile. It is tedious and boring and annoying. There are better adaptations of A Christmas Carol. Once where the play actually matters to the plot of the movie. This one is just…blah.