Here's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Broadway Lineup

November 24, 2015

Thanksgiving is a bad day to be a turkey, but a GREAT day to be a Broadway baby: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature numbers from no fewer than eight musicals this year. And that’s something for which we’re truly thankful.

We’ll see the cast of On Your Feet! kick off the whole shebang, salsa-style. The School of Rock kids will shred on a guitar-shaped float. Fiddler on the Roof‘s cast will show off Hofesh Shechter’s traditional-with-a-twist choreography. We’ll get sneak peeks at NBC’s The Wiz Live (airing December 3) and Cirque du Soleil‘s first-ever Broadway show, Paramour (opening this spring). Longer-running Broadway productions—Finding Neverland, The King and I and Something Rotten!—will get moments in the spotlight, too.

On Your Feet! is sure to bring the heat. (photo by Matthew Murphy)

Let’s take a moment to be thankful for the very real, very amazing exposure the parade gives these shows: About 23 million people are expected to tune in. (Contrast that with the 6.7 million who caught the Tony Awards back in June.) So odds are good that many folks who thought they were just in it for Jordin Sparks and Santa will be totally in love with musical theater by the end of the broadcast.

(Also: Temps in NYC are supposed to reach the 60s tomorrow—which means you can watch guilt-free, knowing that the frequently half-naked Bway performers aren’t smiling through gritted, chattering teeth.)

Catch the parade on NBC from 9 am to noon tomorrow!


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