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Miracle on 34th Street

SING - ALONG



At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving
Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered
old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the
old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly
recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy’s outlet. While he is
successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims
to be the actual Santa Claus.



Despite
reassurances by Kringle’s doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has
misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially
her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet,
people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris
and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas amidst the
rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a
raucous conflict with the store’s cruelly incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris
finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberates fails a mental
examination to ensure his commitment. 

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All seems lost until
Doris’ friend, Fred Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent
him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal
hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus.
What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people’s beliefs are reexamined and
put to the test, but even so, it’s going to take a miracle for Kris to win.



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