Sports teams regularly promote players from the minor leagues or bring in new draft picks to play alongside the veterans.

The same goes for long-running events like Easy Street Productions’ “Miracle on Easy Street,” which celebrates its 36th year with three public performances this weekend at Powers Auditorium.

“We’re kind of calling this a year of rebuilding,” Easy Street co-founder Maureen Collins said. “We’re just starting to bring up a lot of young people from the (Little) Rascals’ side and the dancers’ side.”

James McClellan, one of the regular featured vocalists, wasn’t available this year, so Finn O’Hara, who got his start as a Little Rascal, will sing “White Christmas” in his place.

“Finn has the chops to do it,” Collins said.

On the duet Collins would do with McClellan featuring “Let It Snow” and “Winterwonderland,” Easy Street co-founder Todd Hancock will take his place.

“Todd and I haven’t done anything together in a long time, so doing a song together will be a treat,” Collins said.

Other lead vocalists include Colleen Chance, Katy Collins, Candace Campana and Cortney MacKay.

Easy Street also is starting to bring back some of the songs associated with its original music director Jeff Sanders, who died a month before the 2017 production. Percussionist Don Yallech replaced Sanders as music director and leads the Easy Street Little Big Band — Rick Blackson, piano and keyboard; Lake Baum, guitar and keyboard; Jeff Bremer, bass; Laura Volenik and Tim Harker, woodwinds; Bill Forester, trombone; and Terri Gale, trumpet.

“Finally, all of us are feeling in the spirit that we can hear the songs Jeff did without crying,” Collins said. “We did ‘Run, Run Rudolph’ last year and everybody said, ‘Oh, it felt good. It didn’t feel sad.'”

“Rudolph” will be back this year, sung by Katy Collins and joined by 17 Easy Street alumni dancers. Another song Sanders used to do — “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” — will feature seven members of the Primous family from Lowellville.

“Usually you don’t get that much talent in one family, but every one of them is more talented than the next,” she said. “They’re going to be adorable doing that number.”

This year’s production features more than 75 dancers. The troupe working with choreographer Megan Cleland includes: Makaylla Berry, Katelyn Bowen, Grace Bowen, Erin Brindle, Brooklyn Brown, Julianna Brubaker, Makayla Brubaker, Emma Capogreco, Giana Castle, Tori Collins, Reese Cox, Addyson Davis, Colleen Davis, Averie Davis, Keira Dirksen, Jayden Edington, Lucia Farina, Olivia Fennema, Faye Finamore, Alyssa Frank, Kiley Frenger, Kaitlyn Frenger, Ava Gaffney, Quinn Gaffney, Claire Gintert, Macey Guerra, Avery Hall, Emma Hall, Maddie Handel, Vivienne Holt, Julia Jones, Lily Jones, Stella Karzmer, Ioanna Katsourakis, Claire Keating, Sophia Klindworth, Leah Kovacs, Alexia Little, Danielle Little, Olivia Madura, Jillian Malish, Rosie Manning, Christine Marenkovic, Sophia Mariotti, Maddie Massuri, Matilda Mausteller, Janelle McConnell, Aubrey Middlestead, Madison Nickels, Leeshy O’Connell, Hannah Peterson, Samantha Pickel, Alexis Pomponio, Katherine Pomponio, Jimmy Puhalla, Emma Puhl, Jaylyn Racick, Jordyn Racick, Carmela Ragozzino, Samantha Schellhorn, Paulina Schiraldi, Mia Sciola, Tessa Sciola, Brittany Sellers, Brooklyn Sellers, Ava Semenovich, Alana Sfikas, Madelyn Sipusic, Harlow Stone, Kamillie Truslow, Alayna Valley, Macey Vivo, Emmy Vivo, Lucia White, Lena Zavadil, Aly Zavadil and Georgie Zordich.

The Teen Rascals are Aleah Hall, Hannah Harnutovsky, Sydney Littleton, Caleb MacKay, Breckan Neuhaus, Eliza Primous, Kaden Primous, Jacob Primous and Georgie Zordich.

There are so many younger performers that they are split among the different performances.

The Little Rascals for Friday will be: Ariana Bartos, Patrick Blascak, Rylie Bonacci, Hannah Brown, Raelynn Brown, McKenna Buttry, Olivia Ciapala, Emmerson Cornelius, Kerrington Cuddy, Maddy Dota, Evelyn Eddy, Mari Foster, Anthony Ghiodli, Elena Ghioldi, Mira Greenwalt, Melina Gutierrez, Brynley Ihnat, Devin Joy, Hayley Kane, Charlotte Karzmer, Melody Larson, Persephone McCambridge, Michelina Medina, Tabitha Mentzer, Julianna Moore, Ainsley Neil, Emma O’Connell, Eliana O’Dea, Adriana Osso, Addison Visa Ratliff, Hayley Reed, Callum Rodemoyer, Nora Russo, Melina Senich, Cody Shaw, Eden Sheesley, Liam Shodd, Samuel Stanley, Maeve Tekac, Addison Teneyck, Sloane Vaughn, Adalynn Vrable, Hudson Walker and Madelyn Yost.

The Little Rascals for the Saturday evening and Sunday matinee performances are: Brooke Bartolec, Sandy Borrasso, Cassidy Brubaker, Henry Buzzacco, Aviana Carpenter, Lexi Chance, Alex Cook, Annabeth Davidson, Eliana Duritza, Adalyn Ghizzoni, Caterina Ghizzoni, Gigi Hershfeldt, Riley Hibbard, Scarlett Hibbard, Peyton Holmes, Sadie Hunt, Ellie Jennings, Mason Kunkel, Oliver Kunkel, Riley LaRocca, Finley Mahon, Sydney Mahon, Aiden Miladore, Hayden Moorhead, Stella Moorhead, Liliana Narducci, Gabriella Negron, Macy Padurean, Ellie Palm, Riley Pieren, Anastasios Pilatos, Georgios Pilatos, Panteli Pilatos, Ellah Primous, Lukas, Primous, Rylen Primous, Emilie Roberts, Kyrene Sharlock, Amaya Slipski and McKenna Slipski.

There also is a different cast of Mini Rascals each show with Ryleigh Brown, Peyton Collins, Frankie Gaskell, Janay Hamrock, Aurora Martini, Conley McCloud and Maren Miller on Friday; Zarah Gregory, Eloise Peterson, Panormiti Pilatos, Aneya Primous, Clara Sharlock and Lorelei Schendel on Saturday; and Brielle Allan, Alessia Brown, Julia Burgan, Layla Christopher, Slone Eggleston, Christopher Habuda and Madison Hicken on Sunday.

For many of those young performers, it will be their first time on a stage as large as the one at Powers Auditorium and in front of an audience as large as the one “Miracle” traditionally draws. “I tell the kids, ‘You’re going to have a great week. This is going to be a very big memory in your lives,'” Collins said. “Anyone who’s done it before has tears in their eyes. They’re like, ‘You guys, you’re not going to believe how much fun it is.’ This is something in the world right now you need is just that sense of community and happiness and joy. I tell them, ‘When you think of all the people that are going to be sitting here in the audience, and for two and a half hours, you’re going to help them forget everything else, because they’re going to be so involved in watching you on the stage.’ That’s why I love doing this.”

If you go …

WHAT: Easy Street Productions — “Miracle on Easy Street”

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday

WHERE: Powers Auditorium, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $35 for premium seating and $29 for adults, $25 for students, senior citizens and military and $19 for children and are available at the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office, online at experienceyourarts.org and by calling 330-259-9651.