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A holiday miracle is currently taking place on stages around the country.

But it took some time to get there.

“Miracle on 34th Street the Musical,” with three shows this week at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, has been around for more than 60 years, but seldom staged and never taken on the road until this year. With music and script by Tin Pan Alley songsmith Meredith Wilson — including the standard “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” which he wrote 12 years before — it’s an adaptation of the 1947 film that’s become a Christmas classic. The musical was staged under the name “Here’s Love” due to copyrights and spent nine months on Broadway, from October 1963 to July 1964.

Fun fact: One of its songs, “She Hadda Go Back,” became “Trouble,” w

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