How Do You Say This in Hebrew?: "I Lost Your Grandma's Body" We went for Carol Lawrence. We stayed for people we had never heard of. Ms. Lawrence doesn't even appear in the first scene of Jason Odell Williams's "Handle With Care," a hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy about an inept package deliverer who loses an Israeli grandmother's corpse in a Virginia parking lot on a snowy Christmas Eve. Terrence (Sheffield Chastain, with a perfect lower-middle-class Southern accent) is the culprit. He's the kind of unworldly fellow who loves working for a company called DHX because the uniforms are more colorful than FedEx's. He telephones a childhood friend for help because the customer he is struggling to deal with is "talking Jewish." Ayelet (Charlotte Cohn), that lovely young customer, is indeed speaking rapid-fire, contemporary Hebrew. She is all alone on her first visit to the United States, now that Terrence's company van - containing her grandmother's coffin, en route to the airport - has been stolen. Terrence's more sophisticated old friend, Josh (Jonathan Sale), is Jewish (on his mother's side), but knows almost no Hebrew. Terrence is shocked ("I thought you all had to learn that stuff at, like, Sunday school, before your Hare Krishna"), yet Josh's presence is immeasurably helpful. When Ms. Lawrence does appear, as the grandmother in flashbacks, we are thrilled to see her. A remarkable 56 years after her star-making Broadway role as Maria in "West Side Story," she still has the cheekbones, the smile and the eager charm. And we cherish her character's belief in true love. Karen Carpenter has directed with flawless timing. David L. Arsenault's set, a motel room whose focal point is a framed "Virginia Is for Lovers" ad, is quintessentially pedestrian - all the better to make the point that magic can happen in the unlikeliest places on earth. The big coincidence revealed near the end could be seen as a stretch of credulity, but it just establishes that this is a world in which things happen because they were meant to and everything is for the children, maybe even the consummation of long-lost loves. Mr. Williams has achieved something special: He has written a Jewish Christmas story.