“There’s a lot of fun numbers,” said Bennett Hunter, an actor playing the Bing Crosby role.

If it is cold outside, the cast of the Christmas musical at the Coaster Theatre has a solution. They have, in the words of an Irving Berlin song, “Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.”

Patrick Lathrop, executive director, is expecting audience members attending his latest show will be familiar with much of the music. “I hope people walk away remembering all the tunes from the movie,” he said. “It’s nostalgia, and a good pick for the family for the holidays.”

“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” opens at the Coaster Friday and runs through Dec. 22.

The action takes place in the 1950s. It features Ellis Conklin portraying retired World War II Gen. Henry Waverley, who owns a struggling Vermont inn.

Two soldiers who served with him, played by Bennett Hunter and Ethan Taylor, have become a dance and singing duo. They link up with singing sisters, played by Katherine Lacaze and Rachel Stahly, to stage a show to boost the inn’s finances, but a misunderstanding leads one of the couples to split.

Lathrop has directed with Jeanne Maddox in charge of choreography and Carson Schulte at the piano.

“It has Irving Berlin’s classic melodies and beautiful lyrics,” Lathrop said. “They are classic songs that we know from the film, ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Happy Holiday,’ ‘Love and the Weather,’ ‘Sisters.’ The story is ‘boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again.’”

“White Christmas” was first an Academy Award-winning song performed by Bing Crosby in the 1942 movie “Holiday Inn,” which featured Fred Astaire. Berlin showcased it again as the title of a 1954 film with Crosby and Danny Kaye, for which another song, “Count Your Blessings,” earned an Oscar nomination.

Decades later, a stage version made its debut in St. Louis in 2004 and reached Broadway in 2008, earning Tony Award nominations for choreography and orchestration; it continues to be popular with tours in Britain and Australia.

The Coaster production has multiple evening performances and two matinees at 3 p.m. Dec. 1 and the final show on Dec. 22.

The company offers a “pay-what-you-will” option of $5 or more for the Dec. 12 show. Those interested can call the theater at 503-436-1242 or go in person to the box office, beginning at 12:30 p.m. on that date.

Hunter, aware of the challenge of playing a role originated by a Hollywood legend, said he was enjoying developing his own style. “There’s a lot of fun numbers. I have grown up with the music, but I am not Bing Crosby,” he laughed. “It’s my own version of it.”

‘Irving Berlin’s White Christmas’

Coaster Theatre Playhouse, 108 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach

7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Nov. 29 and 30; Dec. 7, 12 to 14 and 20 to 21; 3 p.m. Dec. 1 and 22.

Tickets are $30 to $35, available at www.coastertheatre.com, at the box office or by calling 503-436-1242.

Pay what you will ($5 or more) for the Dec. 12 show, by phone or at the box office, beginning at 12:30 p.m. on the day of the performance.