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How Mariah Carey and Brad Krevoy’s chance meeting resulted in “A Christmas Melody”

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TV producer Brad Krevoy’s first conversation with Carey was a chance meeting in her Caesars Palace dressing room in July, after he watched her Vegas show with his teen-age daughter.

CREDIT BRIAN DOUGLAS FOR THE HALLMARK CHANNEL

Mariah Carey as the PTA diva in “A Christmas Melody”

“My daughter went to school with the daughter of Mariah’s manager. And I got invited to go see Mariah perform in Las Vegas by my daughter. At the end of the show, they said: ‘Do you want to go back stage?’ And my daughter said, ‘Lets do that! Lets do that!’ It was 12:45 a.m., and I’m usually long in bed by that time, but I said ‘OK, OK.’

“So we meet Mariah, and the first thing she says is: ‘I hear you make movies for Hallmark. I’d like to direct one!’ I was like stunned! I looked her in the eye. I wanted to make sure what I heard was accurate. And I looked at her and said, ‘You know what? You look like a great director to me! Let’s do it.’ And that was it.

“A Christmas Melody” premieres on Saturday, December 19th at 8/7 C on the Hallmark Channel.

Read the entire story, by John Kiesewetter at WVXU Cincinnati.

Executive producers Jonathan Axelrod (left) and Brad Krevoy.