Ever since Jon and I moved to NYC I’ve been dying to go see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. I saw it when I was much younger (middle school maybe?) and in my quest to do “everything” (yeah right) in NYC this was at the top of my list. 2009 was the year!!! We got tickets early for Sunday, December 20th and it did not disappoint!
I had forgotten how large Radio City actually is as a venue…it is HUGE! We got there just in time to get to our seats and take in the decorations and the space before the show started. The show is broken down into 12 Scenes:
1 – Sleigh Ride
2 – Santa Flies to New York
3 - The Twelve Days of Christmas
4 – The Nutcracker
5 – The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
6 – New York at Christmas
7 – Here Comes Santa Claus
8 – Magic is There
9 – Christmas Memories
10 – Let Christmas Shine
11 – The Living Nativity
12 – Joy to the World
The entire show was 90 minutes so the average time for each scene was 7 1/2 minutes. Jon had never seen the Christmas Spectacular and he was really really impressed. Personally, my favorite scene was “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. It featured the rockettes in these fantastic costumes tap dancing to what else but The Twelve Days of Christmas. It was pretty spectacular. I used to tap dance when I was younger and I just love watching people tap dance. Jon’s favorite scene was “The Nutcracker”. It was pretty funny! I was pretty impressed with how modern and updated the show seems to kind of stay with the times and entertain kids that are used to playing video games and watching television. There was a 3D scene and they incorporated the video screen into a number or two. It was impressive that they’ve managed to keep it timeless and classic but yet update it just enough to keep people interested.
The show really is worth seeing, especially because you can get tickets at TKTS during the month of December, there were actually plenty of ways to get discounted tickets. It definitely put me in the Christmas spirit. I was glad I slowed down long enough to enjoy it. Afterwards we wandered over to see the tree. You can’t celebrate Christmas in NYC and not see the tree. It was beautiful as always.
It was the perfect way to spend our last day in NYC before traveling for the holidays! Hopefully we can see the Christmas Spectacular again soon.
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Have you seen the Christmas Spectacular? If so, did you love it or did you think it was cheesy? As you can tell from my review – I LOVED it!
