Apparently, it takes awhile for angels to get used to their wings.

At a recent rehearsal for this weekend’s performances of “Joy to the World,” one tiny member of the heavenly host walked gingerly between rows of auditorium seats at Pelham’s charming Manor Club Theater, one cardboard wing behind her, the other dipping into the row to her left.

She then took her place alongside robed choir members, Irish stepdancers, wild-feather-headed clowns and a toy soldier in a sequined red uniform with a white “X” across the front.

The Ballet Arts of Pelham production, running today through Sunday, features a cast of 80, including 30 children from the Pelhams and 18 professional singers and dancers.

“Joy to the World” was first presented in 2002, when Ballet Arts director Sheran Daniele and her husband, Chris, decided that the attacks of 9/11 had made the world global, that the boundaries had been lost, and that it was time to celebrate the world’s cultures through dance.

That show was a success, so they repeated the sounding joy the following the year. Then they put the show on the shelf after that, until this year, when Sheran decided to revisit it and make it more challenging for her corps.

The message of the piece is that it’s all right to believe in magic, particularly the magic of the season. On stage are dances from Ireland, Italy, Africa, Arabia, Russia, China and the Americas.

Sheran Daniele had a willing and eager accomplice in bringing “Joy” to Pelham: Her daughter, Lia, studied at the Hartt School of Fine Arts, the Joffrey and The New School.

But Lia started dancing long before that.

Sheran, who goes by “Sherry,” tells of teaching a dance class when she was pregnant and having her students point to her shaking, bouncing belly: Lia was working on her dance moves in utero.

In rehearsal, Lia is stern but thoughtful, overtaken by emotion at one point as she gives those assembled a pep talk about how blessed they are to have the love and support of their families.

And there are plenty of families here, with no fewer than nine sets of siblings in the cast and some parents – like Lincoln Schleifer – lending their talents to the production.

Of course, when Schleifer volunteered to help he had no idea it’d mean donning an impossibly large and colorful dress to appear as the impossibly well-endowed Mother Ginger, matron of the Pochinelle clowns.

But there he is, in all her glory.

It’s not all about dancing. There is an adult choir and a children’s choir to sing holiday favorites.

And there’s plenty of magic to go around.

‘Joy to the World’
Where: Manor Club Theater, 1023 Esplanade, Pelham Manor.
When: 7 p.m. today; 5 p.m. tomorrow; 2 p.m. Sunday
Tickets: $25, $15 for children 8 years and younger.
Call: 914-693-1488 or 914-738-8300.
Email: Showmethejoy@aol.com
With: Tiffany Corbett, Chanel Mobley, Tammy Kohlschmidt, Curtis Etheridge, Lucy Caracappa, Lia Daniele, Judeth DeMott, Nikki Jenkins, Wendy Zaros, Danielle Dragoni, John Evans, Curtis Chase, Lincoln Schleifer, Heidi Stiel, Stephen Loftus, Ursula Mencini, Amanda Nord, Juliarae Sansone, Elizabeth Parisi, Audra Parisi, Jane Parisi, Ava Ravitz, Morgan Tolan, Samantha Keleman, Kiera Mallinson, Kerry Mallinson, Emma Angiolucci, Molly Fields, Mary Lee Kenney, Abigail Young, Gabriella Bhrio, Amber Corbett, Olivia Brewer, Elspeth Leckie, Catriona Leckie, Meike Bovbjerg, Britt Bovbjerg, Pilar Vigil, Manisha Asokumar, Helen Robertson, Emma Angiolucci, Kate Warren, Kira Chase, Emma Chase, Athena Woodfin, Julia Fratpietro, Olivia Imperato, Sofia Imperato, Mariah Ippolito, Amanda Andrade, Melissa DiMopulo, Gabriella Spielberg, Cheyenne Valenzuela, Camille N’Diaye, Ella N’Diaye, Hulda Zheng, Monica Pfeiffer, Siena Callegari, Briana Ciardullo, Claire Gilman, Elizabeth Hasfal, Brianna Klein, Nicole Miller, Metika Ngbokoli, Viara Radoulova, Gianna Ray, Zeke Scarborough, Amber Scarborough, Ruby Schleifer, Krystina Steck, Melissa Steck, Savannah Sundheim, Angela Woltmann, Kelly Ann Nichols, Madison Young, Sedari Young, Joanna Shkoza.

(PHOTOS by Tania Savayan/The Journal News)

Top: Lia Daniele, left, and her mother, Sheran, help cast members with their costumes before dress rehearsal for “Joy to the World,” a holiday revue presented by the Ballet Arts of Pelham at The Manor Club.

Bottom: The cast rehearses for “Joy to the World,” a holiday revue presented by the Ballet Arts of Pelham at The Manor Club. The cast includes 18 professional dancers and 60 children and was written, directed and choreographed by Sheran and Lia Daniele, a mother-and-daughter team.)