Whirlwind! - Part 2 - Day 2 (Continued) & Day 3

This post is the continuation of Whirlwind - Part 1 - entered last week.

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We were fortunate to get tickets for the Radio City Music Hall's "Christmas Spectacular" featuring The Rockets. Each troupe consists of 36 dancers who go through their meneuvers with the precision of a Swiss clock. They perform 4 shows a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year along with the Christmas touring casts.

We were jazzed to see the historic show (75th year) in it's home venue.
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Christmas Tree chandelier installed for the 6 week run of "Christmas Spectacular".

The Radio City Orchestra performed Christmas favorites before the show.

The group was raised and lowered on a hydraulic lift and provided the music for

the event.

It was mandatory that we have a pic of the Dancing Panadas from one of the scenes

in "Christmas Spectacular".

The famous Rockettes 'kick line' drew applause from an appreciative audience.

The backdrop is a huge LED computerized screen which provided the scenery from larger than life ornaments to twinkling Christmas trees with amazing clarity.

"The March of The Wooden Soldiers" is a tradition that dates back farther than the first time I saw the show in the late 1950s. This scene was done in a fast cascade back in those days but was executed with incredible exactitude in slow motion when we saw the show last week.

A real crowd pleaser.

A bus tour around NYC. The bus' movements were programmed in synch with the LED projections providing quite the illusion of driving in New York City.

"Dancing Santas" - combined live action with projections on the LED screen.

Santa's Toy Shop

"The Living Nativity," the re-telling of Jesus Christ's birth, that is now the Spectacular's penultimate number. It's now full of beautiful pageantry -- including those famed live camel and sheep -- but doesn't feel too somber or so religious that it may offend non-Christians.

We were quite surprized that the scene was still included considering the current

political correctness consciousness.

Curtain Call

Us - at our seats after an incredible 90 minute show.

The Great Organ

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After the show, a brisk walk downtown to Penn Station and a train ride backto New Jersey - later that evening, "Noises Off" once again - we enjoyed it so much
the previous evening, we went back for a second helping.

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