Spectacular Christmas Return of Radio City Rockettes after The COVID Shutdown
MANHATTAN - It's one of New York City's most beloved Christmas traditions, and it's back.
“There is no Christmas without Radio City Rockettes,” viewer Ashley Wells told PIX11 News. “The Rockettes are iconic and we’re from Alabama.”
It was the opening night the Wells family of Dothan Alabama had been waiting for for nearly two years.
Eight family members are excited about the lively crib, the high kicks of the Rockettes and the parade of the wooden soldiers.
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For the first time since 1933, this beloved New York Christmas tradition was canceled last year due to the COVID19 pandemic, but now tourists and New Yorkers were looking forward to this triumphant return.
“That means we have hope,” Farah Vidal, who had traveled with his family from the Dominican Republic to watch the program, told PIX11 Noticias.
“One thing we haven’t lost in all of this is hope. It makes us very happy,” he added.
Those who walked in seemed happy to show these vaccination records. Inside, once fully vaccinated, spectators are not required to wear masks.
Some anonymous performers reportedly complained that there weren’t any regular COVID tests for the cast and crew like the Broadway theaters, but a spokesman for Madison Square Garden Entertainment, which runs the music room, pointed out the size of this venue with 6,000 seats. and the most sophisticated air filtration system to make the difference:
“We follow the same protocols. We have been effectively used on a list of events for months, not just in Radio City Rockettes but at our other venues in New York as well,” he said the spokeswoman .
“It means everything now,” Kohema English, a New Yorker who will be watching the show with her family, told PIX11 News. “This is the first time we’ve seen the Christmas spectacle,” she added.
Starting Monday, when vaccinated international visitors can enter the United States, New York’s tourism industry is expecting a tremendous boom in the city’s economy and Radio City population as well.
“Now we have the chance to get to New York two years later is a dream come true,” Zulay Peter, a tourist from Panama who will see the Christmas Spectacular, told PIX11 News.
The radio City Christmas Spectacular will be available until 2 a.m. January 2022