OK, now I can post from page 28.
BBG, we saw Kris Kringle last night, too. Ever since a community group bought the old theater building here in town a few years ago, they have put on a live radio play in December. This year was “Miracle on 34th Street”. The “actors” all dress in 1940s clothes (the local theater was built in 1946), and they read their script parts into microphones. There are sound effects that we can watch them make, and there are signs for “ON AIR” and “APPLAUSE”. They have girls reading boys’ parts, low-voiced women and boys reading mens’ parts, and the players who aren’t reading at the time sit on the stage and “chat” with each other, or file their nails, or have a nip or two… all sorts of action to watch. Oh, and there are commercials, too, and Christmas carols during intermissions and at the end of the radio play.
And the Kris Kringle we saw had no beard and was wearing a shirt, pants, and suspenders… no red suit… but he had the right voice for the part.
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