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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

November 21-December 23


Previews: November 21 at 7:30 p.m. and November 23 at 8 p.m.


Regular Run: Wednesdays at 2 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.

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Featuring Des Plaines Resident and Jeff Award Winning Actress Susan Moniz (Star of Jeff Award Winning Best Musical Follies at Chicago Shakespeare Theater)


After a critically acclaimed world-premiere production last season, this beautiful, moving Holiday treat is back by popular demand. When a broken-hearted boy named Thomas loses the treasured wooden nativity given to him by his now deceased father, his mother goes to the local woodcarver in hopes to obtain a replacement. Jonathan Toomey, known to the village as “Mr. Gloomy” takes the job – bit refuses to promise anything by Christmas. But when Thomas decides to watch the woodcarver work, the commission takes their relationship to unexpected places; even ad Christmas approaches, the real miracle is the transformation created in each of their lives.

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Tickets: $10-32

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