About the Characters

Slay Ride — or Rudolph the Dead-Nosed Reindeer

Dustin Heavilin as Santa Claus
Santa Claus — The big man of the season. This year is more frantic than usual. He’s had to make major cutbacks. If it weren’t for NAFTA, he wouldn’t have been able to open that Toy Factory in Mexico. Now he has labor problems with the Reindeer Union. It is a well-kept secret that he has had his problems with animal rights activists who insist he keeps his reindeer airborne too long without refueling.
Meghan Roos as Elfish
Elfish Prezley — Santa’s nebbish first officer, the elf keeps everything in line for him. Elfish won last year’s Arctic Circle Science Weenie Award. An efficiency expert and author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective Elves, Elfish left Keebler after the tainted chocolate chip cookie scandal of 1992.
Vera Barton as Mrs. Claus
Mrs. Claus — Rich and spoiled, no one enjoys getting gifts more than she. Santa has a factory dedicated to making gifts for her. She’s used to getting everything she always wanted. Now, she’ll stop at nothing to get her way. She likes her vehicles like she likes her men: Big, fast and with a ready stick shift.
Evan Oslund as Tooth Fairy
Tooth Fairy — Formerly a demolition expert for Urban Renewal, he was arrested but never convicted for tripping children on the playground. Often picketed by orthodontists and dental hygienists, he can sometimes be found hanging around hockey arenas looking for stray teeth.
Butch Maxwell as Easter Bunny
Easter Bunny — A real schemer, he has a new “hare-brained” get-rich-quick stratagem at every turn. One of his latest: chocolate-filled Fabergé Easter Egg knockoffs. The spry symbol of spring is a sensually insatiable rabbit with a taste for danger. Always looking for new income sources, he recently took an endorsement deal with Dr. Scholl’s.
Rudolph
Rudolph — Always the lead reindeer in Santa’s team, he’s begun to get a little too big for his famous red nose. Years of celebrity gone to his head. He got in trouble recently for dive-bombing Frosty the Snowman. Little does he know that most everyone at the North Pole would like to see this deer caught in some snowmobile’s headlights.

The 2017 Cast

Santa Claus — Dustin Heavilin
Elfish Prezley — Meghan Ross
Mrs. Claus — Vera Barton
Tooth Fairy — Evan Oslund
Easter Bunny — Butch Maxwell

1996 Cast

Santa Claus — Frank Wilson
Mrs. Claus — Vera Barton-Caro
Elfish Prezley — Dee McCorkle
Tooth Fairy — P.D. Gregg
Easter Bunny — Butch Maxwell
Understudies:
Elfish Prezley — Jody Melto
Tooth Fairy — Michael Moran

1997 Cast

Santa Claus — Frank Wilson
Mrs. Claus — Vera Barton-Caro
Elfish Prezley — Dee McCorkle
Tooth Fairy — Bert Furioli
Easter Bunny — Butch Maxwell
Understudies:
Santa Claus — Michael Moran
Elfish Prezley — Arlene Merryman

2000 Cast

Santa Claus — Gino Angelo
Mrs. Claus — Arlene Merryman
Elfish Prezley — Dee McCorkle
Tooth Fairy — Bert Furioli
Easter Bunny — Butch Maxwell

First “Slay Ride” Page Scenes from “Slay Ride” Audience Photos

Last updated: October 6, 2025