The 2025 Rose Parade featured a dazzling float dedicated to 'Wicked', the blockbuster musical adaptation. The parade also included tributes to classic films like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and 'The Gold Rush'.
Wicked , the cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical phenomenon and one of the biggest box-office hits in 2024, was the featured attraction in the 2025 Rose Parade float by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. This year's highlights include Wicked references, an equity icon, and strange-looking E Scooters.
Without further ado, a full recap of the moments that you don’t want to ring the New Year in without seeing:Something old, something new: Two fan-favorite movies made their way into this year’s parade, one a clever marketing scheme to get you to book that glamorous vacation to Illinois that you’ve been pondering and the other to get you to watch a movie-musical you *might* have heard of by now.— a talker on TikTok before it even graced the parade route — was brought to parade viewers by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. If you couldn’t guess, the cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical phenomenon and one of the biggest box-office hits in 2024 is the featured attraction here. The float was called “Defying Gravity” and the float’s namesake song was belted from speakers as it went by.Recalling the 1986 teen comedy, in which the title character, played by Matthew Broderick, skipped school to explore the Windy City, the float from the Illinois Office of Tourism depicted several downtown Chicago skyscrapers, Wrigley Field and — via the floral version of masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon” — the Art Institute of Chicago.and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for the 2025 @Rose Parade in Pasadena! Don’t miss an epic performance from Illinois-native Brian Culbertson as well as a few other surprise guests on New Year’s Day.Also speaking cinematically, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s float paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s classic 1925 film, “The Gold Rush” and his “Little Tramp” character
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