Thanksgiving week I was chided for writing about this all-American holiday and leaving Christianity out of it. I suppose now, if I congratulate Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas show this year, with its ending of the Baby Jesus, etc. I’ll get some hell about that! Well, I bow to no one in my veneration for Christmas and as much as I love the Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall and love Santa gliding down from the North Pole, acrobatic ice skaters and all the rest of the glamour, fun and fantasy at Radio City this time of year, I defend the right for the show to end with the manger, the camels, lambs and donkeys, the three wise men bearing gifts and all the rest. I just adored the Radio City show this year and especially the “snow” they poured down on the audience at the end. It is still falling out of my shoes. I have loved and defended this annual event, once upon a time even hopping up when I had the power to help keep the Rockettes in place. I have never missed the Radio City show since I first came to New York after World War II. One of my favorite things in life is/are the singularly amazing Rockettes and their march of the wooden soldiers. What would Christmas be if we had never had that experience? Boom! Goes the cannon as they fall linking arms, in a sight only they can offer up. I’d say if you have money for only one spectacular annually, be sure to take your children and loved ones to 50th and Avenue of the Americas. It’s worth giving up something else to go and see this show. A bright and delightful and over-powering spectacle of glamour and old-fashioned sheer show biz that will cheer you up with its latter day modernizing which can’t break the thing we dream of as children. Linda Haberman is the genius who reminds us every year of what Christmas is all about. It runs through December30th and you should call 866-858-0007… or radiocitychristmas and see what you can afford to pay for this incomparable experience.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:48:43 +0000
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