LOGLINE
A New York City window designer goes looking for the missing baby Jesus at Christmas.
PITCH
New York City window designer Alan Wiseman creates a Living Manger for Saks Fifth Avenue customers to enjoy. Things go a bit haywire when the Little Drummer Boy goes missing, and then so does the baby Jesus. After a New York City Police Department Officer arrives to find the Christmas infant, a plastic baby is used as a stand-in until he can be replaced with a real human. After the infant’s mother apologizes for breast feeding her son in the bathroom, a living baby Jesus returns to his straw bed. His mother promises to stick to a breast feeding schedule, and when the animals arrive from the zoo, the window goes live for the public. It’s the best Christmas ever!
SYNOPSIS
Alan Wiseman, a famous Saks Fifth Avenue window designer, is trying to build a magical manger—complete with a real baby, live animals, and an actual child drummer—but he’s come up against a lot of havoc. After hours of planning and arranging, the Little Drummer Boy actor has gone missing. Shoppers on the street stop to watch his bewilderment in the window, wondering what could be going wrong. The Living Manger window display is about to premiere at any moment as soon as Alan can finish it. Every holiday season, the New Yorkers gather outside the windows on Fifth Avenue to celebrate the season. Not only is Alan famous for his window displays, but also his portrait photography, which his wife Susan loves the most. Often, Susan is the subject of his photography, especially when he wants to practice new techniques. He has many famous clients in his photos, including models and actors, and he has traveled the world, documenting other cultures. The holidays, however, are his busiest season, with Christmas and Hanukkah themes in his window designs.
When all seems lost, the Saks Fifth Avenue manager pulls the Little Drummer Boy by his ear back into the window display, saying he found the boy running through the jewelry department. Alan begs the little boy to stand in one place and keep drumming because everyone is watching. Then, just when it seems that things calm down, Ewelina, Alan’s assistant, realizes that the baby Jesus has gone missing. After she tells Alan the bad news, she thinks that maybe the baby was kidnapped and calls to make a police report. As the New York City Police Department Officer arrives with his gun and badge, Alan grows more frantic. As the police officer searches for the real baby, Ewelina gets a plastic baby from the toy section as a stand-in. Next to the Living Manger, Saks Fifth Avenue features Alan’s Silver Hanukkah Star and Golden Dreidel Windows. He also has a Snow Castle Window, a Santa Workshop Window, and New Year’s Eve Gala Window.
Just when Alan is about to close the Living Manger, the mother of the missing baby walks into the window. She apologizes and says she was breast-feeding him in the women’s bathroom. Alan asks the mother to stick to a very strict feeding schedule. As a compromise, Alan decides she will join the cast as Mary. Ewelina grabs the people near her and adds them to the display in outfits, complete with a Joseph, Wise Men, and Shepherds. Later in the afternoon, when the animals are all in place with pooper scoopers at hand, the window goes live! Then Alan’s phone rings, and it’s his proud wife on the line.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
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