Name: Miracle On 34th Street
Start: 2024-12-06T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-06T22:30:00-05:00
Location: The Heights Players (Brooklyn, NY)

Miracle On 34th Street, Adapted by The Mountain Community Theater
Directed by Dorea Slagle
Performance Dates: December 6-15: Fri. & Sat. 8pm & Sundays 2pm, Extra Performance December 14 @ 2pm.
Join us before the show for some Holiday cheer! Come and grab a cup of cocoa, a Christmas cookie or a candy cane, and meet the Elves of Macy’s. Before entering the theater, we invite you to stop by the North Pole mailbox and write a letter to Santa Claus! Our Elves will be sure to deliver them directly to him. ❄️
Believe in the magic of the season ... with this Christmas classic.
"This is a tale that we want to believe in, that creates a world we seem to desperately desire, free of the blatant commercialism that surrounds us, where love and decency and generosity of spirit are their own rewards. What we want Christmas to be all about, really." So writes the Santa Cruz Sentinel of this most heartwarming holiday story. By chance, Kris Kringle, an older man in a retirement home, gets a job working as Santa for Macy's. But Kris isn’t your typical department store actor - he truly believes that he IS the Santa Clause. At Macy’s, he meets Doris Walker, and her daughter Susan. Doris is a single mom, with a shaken faith in the good of other people. She works hard to give her daughter opportunity and stability in a tough world, and Susan has turned into quite the practical and realistic child - seemingly too old and too wise to believe in magic, or Christmas miracles.
Kris takes his new job at Macy’s as an opportunity to unleash waves of good will with Macy's customers, shaking up the self centered commercial world of New York City. Though not all are touched by Kris’ Santa Claus streak - he’s seen as deluded and dangerous by Macy’s vocational counselor Sawyer, who plots to have Kris locked away in Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital. Kris ends up in a court competency hearing to determine if his claim to be Santa Clause makes him dangerous to those around him. It’s up to Doris, Susan, and their neighbor Fred Gayley (who happens to be an upstart young defense attorney) to prove that Kris is not only as sane as can be, he just may be who he claims after all…
Cast
Danny McWilliams as Kris Kringle
Anne Hegwood as Susan (select performances)
Marlowe Finck as Susan (select performances)
Maggie Dickinson as Doris
Sean Costello as Fred
Sam Shown as Judge Harper (U/S Fred)
Marie Ingrisano Isner as Mara / Adult Ensemble (Act 1)
Samantha Burkard as Shelley Shellhammer / Featured Singer
Henri Vrod as Halloran / Bloomingdale
Yolanda Dickerson as Doctor Pierce
Patrick Leonard as Sawyer
Marc A. Hermann as Mr. Macy / Featured singer / Drunk Santa Swing
Carol Wagner as Elf / Lou
Jennifer Kim as Elf / Ensemble
Mabel Danielian as Elf / Featured Singer
Tabatha Ford as Finley / Adult Ensemble
Brooke Wahlstrom as Foster Mother / Featured Singer / Ally
Yves Romain as Adult Ensemble / Jim Duncan
David Moseder as Drunk Santa / Featured Singer (Kris Kringle U/S)
Linda Ann Vega as Bag Lady / Adult Ensemble / (Judge U/S)
Evelyn Pope as Sharon / Janet Mara / Kids Ensemble
Pepper Connors as Megan / Kids Ensemble
Daphne Isner as Dutch Girl / Kids Ensemble (Janet Mara U/S)
Loic Sarmazian as Johnny / Kids Ensemble
Cate Finck as Kids Ensemble Swing
June Sarmazian as Kids Ensemble Swing
Creative Team
Dorea Slagle (Director)
Alex Andrews (Assistant Director)
Holly Thomas (Stage Manager)
Monica Ramirez (Lead Assistant Stage Manager)
Catherine Hammer (Assistant Stage Manager / Music Director)
Alessia Secli (Choreographer)
Gary VanderPutten (Stage Designer)
Natalie Lay (Props Designer)
Laura Chartrand (Costume Designer )
Julia Keesler (Assistant Costumer)
Alan Sporing (Lighting Designer)
Pierce Ducker (Lighting Tech)
Greg Henry (Sound Tech)
Chris Carlson (Production Coordinator)
Katlyn Shaw (Intimacy Coordinator)
Noah Chartrand (Child Supervisor)
Amanda Enriquez (Graphic Designer)
Marth Brown (Production Photographer)