.helen_e_shaw went to see the Radio City ChristmasSpectacular, and found that while grown-ups follow the story, kids follow the details
My 5-year-old companion, Alice, liked the dresses. Photo: BAUZEN/Getty Images To paraphrase Tolkien: One does not simply walk into The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. First of all, there are so many security gates. Second, its city-block-size lobby has a popcorn counter, which is very difficult to walk past. And third , one is a bit worried that glittery-toothed razzle-dazzle simply isn’t one’s jam.
For the record, we’d seen a lot. After a big countdown , the show starts with a 3-D video projection that seems to fill the cavernous hall: We fly with an animated Santa from the North Pole, down through the eerily clean and empty streets of midtown, and up to Rockefeller Center. Presents tumble off his sleigh and into the air, seemingly in front of us.
There is also a small playlet, in which two brothers discover the meaning of Christmas. Santa whisks them to a kind of steampunk North Pole, where a chorus of huge Raggedy Ann dolls convince them of the perfect gift to buy their sister. And, of course, there’s dancing. The choreographer Julie Branam incorporates tap, ballet, jazz, and even a little twerking into her numbers, which nearly always come to a crescendoing unison ta-daaaa.
Penny, 11 years old. Has seen the show once before. Ambivalent, cautious, but very eager to stay fair and to give the show its due.Interior, a café near Radio City Music Hall. Dad: You’re recording this?Dad: I’m an old-fashioned guy; I like the high kicking. And my favorite part is the Toy Soldiers. Those are the old bits, and I felt they were drowned out by the rest of the stuff.
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