Radio City Christmas Spectacular

TV Movie
2007
Unrated
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

119

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Family Musical

Santa Flies to New York. Jump right into Santa's sleigh as ti zooms over the frozen North, past international borders, and right to the doors of Radio City Music Hall.Santa Flies to New York. Jump right into Santa's sleigh as ti zooms over the frozen North, past international borders, and right to the doors of Radio City Music Hall.Santa Flies to New York. Jump right into Santa's sleigh as ti zooms over the frozen North, past international borders, and right to the doors of Radio City Music Hall.

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IMDb RATING

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119

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Last television production of legendary newsman Don Hewitt.

Goofs
At 51 min, as Santa is singing about magic to the boys, pay attention to the newsstand guy in the background. In one shot he's drinking, in the next he's not.

Alternate versions
The DVD release by TimeLife is altered and edited. A generic "Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring The Rockettes" title logo has be placed over the original title logo which celebrated the 75th anniversary of Radio City Music Hall. Later, at the 1:03:40 mark, between "Christmas Memories" and "Let Christmas Shine", a three minute short film about the show's history has been edited out. This is why the Blu-ray runs 84 minutes and the DVD runs 81 minutes. The original, unedited version of the program was released on Blu-ray by TimeLife.

Connections
Edited into Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes - At Home Holiday Special (2020)

Soundtracks
Happy Holidays
(uncredited)
Written by Irving Berlin

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Featured review

8/10

A wonderful Christmas revue with the Rockettes

This is a wonderful musical revue staged and filmed in December 2007 at Radio City Music Hall. The New York venue regularly stars the Radio City Rockettes. For this "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," the Rockettes don holiday costumes and are joined by a cast of other singers and performers. It's a true spectacle with performers singing on small side stages, a video that shows Santa flying over the Big Apple, and then Santa flying over the audience onto the stage.

I enjoy the old Busby Berkeley staged routines of the early years of musical films. Those were true extravaganzas. Anyone who enjoys watching coordinated dance numbers should enjoy this film. It must have been thrilling to be in the audience for this show.

The Rockettes are a delight to watch as they do their choreographed numbers to various Christmas themes. Among these are Sleigh Ride, the Twelve Days of Christmas, and "The Nutcracker" and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. The show winds up with "Here Comes Santa Claus," Christmas memories, a living nativity, and "Joy to the World." It's not a Christmas movie, but it's very good entertainment that most should enjoy over the holidays. Or, at any time, for that matter.