Setlist
part 1 52:24 minutes
01 radio intro 4:04
02 Joy to the World 4:29 [Isaac Watts; 1719 - arranged by Randall Bass]
03 Hallelujah Chorus 3:40 [G. F. Handel, from "Messiah"; 1741]
04 Gerald Steichen's greeting 1:36
05 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 4:11 [Edmund H. Sears; 1849]
06 Go Tell It on the Mountain 3:28 [John W. Work; 1865]
07 Waltz of the Flowers 6:43 [
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky, from "The Nutcracker"; 1891-1892]
08 intro 2:00
09 The Polar Express 20:55 [Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard; 2004
- Newly arranged by David Chase for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra]
Narrator: Will LeBow
Text by Chris van Allsburg
(world broadcast premiere of the new arrangement)
10 radio outro 1:12
intermission
part 2 52:14 minutes
11 radio intro 3:35
Suite from "Home Alone" [John Williams; 1990]
12 I Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas 2:32
13 II Holiday Flight 1:25
14 III Somewhere in My Memory 3:52
15 stage intro 1:05
16 Sleigh Ride 3:07 [Leroy Anderson; 1948]
17 stage intro 0:18
18 Kije Takes a Ride 3:17
[Serge Prokofiev, from the Troika (4th movement) of the "Lt. Kije Suite"; 1933]
19 stage intro 1:43
20 The Twelve Days of Christmas - Medley 9:51
[Traditional; arranged by David Chase]
21 Santa Claus Medley 5:16
- Hello, Mr. Kringle [Kay Kyser(?); 1939]
- "The Man with the Bag" [Dudley Brooks, Hal Stanley & Irv Taylor, 1950]
- Santa Baby [Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer; 1953]
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town [J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie; 1934]
22 Santa Claus appears on the stage 2:30
23 audience sing-along medley 8:08
- Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer [Robert May and Johnny Marks; 1949(?)]
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Hugh Martin; 1944(?)]
- Let It Snow [Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn; 1944]
- The Christmas Song [Mel Torme and Bob Wells; 1944]
- Winter Wonderland [Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith; 1934]
- Jingle Bells [James Lord Pierpont; 1857]
24 encore break 1:09
25 Let There Be Peace On Earth 3:26 [Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller; 1955]
26 radio outro 0:50
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