2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — Page 3

IMO “Some Like It Hot” looked the best of all the performances. High energy, looks like a big splashy tap dance musical. Great song too!

Oooh, that performance by the cast of "A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical" was certainly "a thing". Seeing Will Swenson playing Neil Diamond wearing Liza Minnelli's jumpsuit was not on my bingo card.

Are the Rockettes typically that… lacking in diversity?

darquegk said: "That was more diverse than some past years, where there was an all white line with a token black performer wearing white skin tone tights to make all the kicking legs look identical."

My jaw just dropped.

I had to leave before Mariah performed. I have it recorded. How’d she do?

I feel like tap dancing is … tired

SouthernCakes said: "I feel like tap dancing is … tired"

Since when? It's just not so common in shows these days.

Miles2Go2 said: "Moulin Rouge! - Another solid performance, but I feel like it’s hard to capture the magic of live theater with these pro shots (is that the correct term for this type of camera work?)."

Agreed on both the CBS performances. Even with the lip-syncing, the NBC performances felt a lot more dynamic.

Lea Michele has won. I don't know what the competition was, but the way she opened the parade was a declaration of victory.

I liked Some Like It Hot until the tap dancing started. Good song choice. Hoping it's still around by spring so I can see it.

I think "we get to sing along to Sweet Caroline" was enough to sell tickets for A Beautiful Noise to a lot of people. I was most intrigued by the diversity of the chorus. You never see a group of dancers like that.

Of course The Lion King works better in the theater, but I still appreciated seeing the puppets and makeup and costumes so clearly. Some of it could use a refresh but a lot of those choices are really quite smart. I appreciated why it's been running so long. And the current Rafiki sounded great.

Do producers pay to get this amazing exposure, or is it a gift from Macy's? I was surprised & Juliet and K-Pop were not on, though.

Loved all the numbers with the exception of a Beautiful Noise. That was pretty sad; I felt sorry for Will.

SouthernCakes said: "I feel like tap dancing is … tired"



Hardly.. It is fabulous for a lot of people. I adored all the tap in Some Like It Hot, Funny Girl and the few musicals that show it off.

What I find tired are the negative Nelly's who have to bad mouth everything.

I missed the parade, and was wondering how Dionne Warwick was?

She does actually sound like Isaac Hayes in her old age usually.

This woman was my favorite singer when I was growing up, and I've seen her on stage quite a few times. I even got to see her accompanied by Burt Bacharach on stage at Radio City. Lots of famous people were in that audience.

Later I unfortunately saw her berate a poor audience member from the stage, when she was handed a note by an usher in the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, Ct. The woman had an emergency call at the box office, that was serious enough to get her from her seat. Ms Warwick said what an annoyance it was and stood in dead silence while the woman got up from her seat towards the front, and watched her walk silently up the aisle of the theater (terrified probably of the news and the embarassment she was subjected to). The audience boo'd Warwick.

Then there was the AIDS Foundation money that she "misappropriated" and squandered on four star accomodations for herself, while putting on assistants and other untalented people on stage as performers.

I lost my admiration and actually threw out the records and cd's.

But, I am curious to know how she did performing at the parade, and if it was a bad Mariah-like lip sync.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iPxZ48gPYc

Updated On: 11/24/22 at 09:33 PM

ManOfLaMuncha said: "I missed the parade, and was wondering how Dionne Warwick was?

She does actually sound like Isaac Hayes in her old age usually.

This woman was my favorite singer when I was growing up, and I've seen her on stage quite a few times. I even got to see her accompanied by Burt Bacharach on stage at Radio City. Lots of famous people were in that audience.

Later I unfortunately saw her berate a poor audience member from the stage, when she was handed a note by an usher in the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, Ct. The woman had an emergency call at the box office, that was serious enough to get her from her seat. Ms Warwick said what an annoyance it was and stood in dead silence while the woman got up from her seat towards the front, and watched her walk silently up the aisle of the theater (terrified probably of the news and the embarassment she was subjected to). The audience boo'd Warwick.

Then there was the AIDS Foundation money that she "misappropriated" and squandered on four star accomodations for herself, while putting on assistants and other untalented people on stage as performers.

I lost my admiration and actually threw out the records and cd's.

But, I am curious to know how she did performing at the parade, and if it was a bad Mariah-like lip sync.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iPxZ48gPYc"

She sang (lip synced) "What The World Needs Now Is Love", a song that she's appropriated since the '70s that people today believe she originated it and had a hit with when in fact it was Jackie De Shannon who did.

Updated On: 11/24/22 at 11:06 PM