Broadway's 'Mary Poppins' joins Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

[lesmisfan]

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This is gonna be one awesome macys!!! I am a huge broadway fan, i am also hoping for mermaind, and young frankenstein for the other two that haven't been announced and can't wait for m&ms float!

[RumRunner31]

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i never watch it, but i'm a broadway nerd now and it appears as though i've been missing out! totally watching it this year!

Make sure you're up super early - they show all the numbers back to back and then do the real parade. My mom and I have made it a tradition to get up, watch the Broadway part, then go back to sleep before we're subjected to the Wiggles or anything like that.

[StrikeYerColors]

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i never watch it, but i'm a broadway nerd now and it appears as though i've been missing out! totally watching it this year!

[1FoolishMortal]

Re: Broadway's 'Mary Poppins' joins Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

I'm pulling for Young Frankenstein.

[ALIASd]

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That would be an obvious choice to be added, a nice preview of it's December 6th Broadway opening.

[mouseinphilly]

Re: Broadway's 'Mary Poppins' joins Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Would one of those productions be - dare I ask - The Little Mermaid?

[ALIASd]

Macy's Parade to Feature Blonde and Poppins
Plus Groff, Brightman and Rose

By Andrew Gans
Playbill
05 Nov 2007



Ashley Brown in Mary Poppins.
photo by Joan Marcus

Several Broadway musicals and stars will be featured during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be broadcast live on NBC-TV beginning at 9 AM ET.

According to a Macy's spokesperson, cast members from Legally Blonde will perform "What You Want," while the Mary Poppins company will offer "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Two other Broadway productions (to be announced shortly) as well as the Radio City Rockettes will also perform.

As previously announced, the parade will kick off with "Making Magic," a new tuned penned by Michael Feinstein with lyrics by Bill Schermerhorn, Macy's creative director. Members of Camp Broadway, the theatre arts education company, will perform the song.

Also of interest to theatre fans: Spring Awakening's Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff will belt out "Give My Regards to Broadway" atop the M&M's Chocolate Candies on Broadway float. That theatre-themed float will feature the M&M's characters taking lead roles in Broadway productions: Green is Elphaba in Wicked, Orange and Yellow star in A Chorus Line, Blue is the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, and Red is Spamalot's King Arthur.

The original Christine Daae in London and Broadway's Phantom, Sarah Brightman, will be dressed as a Pirate Queen and will sing "The Journey Home" on the Jolly Polly Pirate Ship; "Hairspray" film star Nikki Blonsky will perform "You Can't Stop the Beat" on the American Classic Malt Shop float; and Feinstein and Tony winner Anika Noni Rose will perform another Feinstein-Schermerhorn song, "Give Me the Key to This Wonderful City," aboard the History Channel's New York Tin Toy float.

The 81st Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is set for Thursday, Nov. 22 from 9 AM-noon. The parade is broadcast nationally on NBC-TV. The parade begins at 77th Street and Central Park West of Manhattan's Upper West Side. It will then make its way down Broadway through Times Square before taking final bows at Herald Square and ending at 7th Ave and 34th Street.

For more information and a few helpful tips for those who are ready to brave the weather and crowds, visit www.macysparade.com or call the Macy's Parade Hotline at (212) 494-4495.

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