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LEWISTON — “The Mike Willette Christmas Show,” with the North Pole as this year’s theme, will be presented Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Franco-American Heritage Center.

Special guests will be Robert Gauthier, Mariah Perry and David Greenham.

Reminiscent of the popular Andy Williams and Perry Como family shows of the ’60s and ’70s, “The Mike Willette Christmas Show” is cheerful and filled with song and holiday décor. Willette’s guests will sing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Winter Wonderland” and many other holiday favorites.

Meaghan Ring will make a special appearance, dancing to “Music Box Dancer,” and the evening will end with the show’s signature presentation of “White Christmas.”

Perry, a graduate of Dean College, has been in the cast of the “Care Bears Live” national tour and a nominee for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Scholarship. A dancer and choreographer, she has directed a variety of productions at the college. She will sing “Breath of Heaven” and join the cast in other traditional favorites, including “O Holy Night.”

Gauthier has performed extensively throughout New England. He has sung major roles with New England Theatre Company and Booth Productions, and is a featured soloist with the Salisbury Lyric Opera Company in Massachusetts.  His theatrical resume includes the roles of Phantom in “Phantom of the Opera” and Chauvelin in “The Scarlett Pimpernel” at Community Little Theatre. Besides his stage work, he has been musical director and accompanist for several community theater groups in Maine and Massachusetts. He will sing “Thankful,” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and will join the cast in other traditional songs.

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Other cast members are Olivia Mayo, Lenna Soifer, Bobbi Shelley, Ella Henry, Rebecca Soifer, Michelle Dube, Gabrielle Dube, Bethany Dube, Victoria Copland, Katelyn Breton, Olivia Randall, Riley McCurdy, Leah Graves, Paige Weber, Brooke Shelley and Maddie Leslie.

The program will also include dancers, reindeer, elves, Rudolph, Fifi the Christmas Firefly, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Suzy Snowflake and, of course, Santa Claus.

“The Mike Willette Christmas Show” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Concert tickets are $16, $14 for students and seniors. Call 689-2000 or go online to www.francoamericanheritage.org. For more information, call 783-1585.

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