Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2014 — Page 3

Thanks, ethan!

BWW just posted it, if anyone else is looking :)


On The Town Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance

Updated On: 11/27/14 at 10:48 AM

That Finding Neverland performance on ABC was a bit bizarre. If you don't have a leading man and you can't even come close to duplicating the presentation from A.R.T., why even bother? The main appeal of the "Stronger" number in Cambridge was the staging and Jeremy Jordan's vocal pyrotechnics. Without those two elements, it fell really flat. Laura Michelle Kelly looked and sounded great, though.

I missed the On the Town performance, so thanks for sharing that. Barely caught the end of Honeymoon in Vegas. I did like GGtM (or whatever the abbreviation is), and Side Show came off well. Was pleasantly surprised over The Last Ship performance. Very much looking forward to seeing Idina (who was a lot of fun earlier this week with the Bloomingdale's show) and Renee Fleming, whom my cat is madly in love with (seriously, he adores her voice and will stop whatever he's doing when hears her singing).

Do you think they front loaded the Broadway numbers because the audience grows as folks drag it out of bed and they wanted to save the more commercial stuff i.e. pop stars for later?

That ANNIE performance was embarrassingly awful. Wallis had zero polish. The hip hop orchestrations didn't match the Upper West Side-spoiled-brat tone that the kid actors gave. Just embarrassing.

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I actually was at the Pippin performance. It was good then and looked good on TV. I was not impressed with Josh's singing though. The beginning was a little rough because his voice didn't sound clear.

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Pippin and Sideshow were my favs!!

Adamgreer, NBC wants to save their leads for the real show; they did this last year with Sound of Music when they performed Sixteen Going on Seventeen instead of something with a "star" in it. Still thought the numbers they did looked great, and it'll be a lot of fun.

I agree with all that the Annie performance was embarrassing. New Annie was completely phoning it in with limp movements. Perhaps she was nervous about the wet floor from the snow/rain.

Of all the performances at the beginning, I was most impressed by The Last Ship. Hadn't much desire to see this, as it seemed pretty bleak from everyone's reactions, but after that, I'd like to make up my own mind. Thought the song that Sting sang at the Tonys was beautiful too.

Something about Side Show leaves me feeling very indifferent. I want to like this more than I do.

Lastly, On The Town was perfection. For them to sing that song with that backdrop was beautiful, and it was nice to see such a focus on the dancing.

Annie was boring and looks like she couldn't be less interested. Why does Gentleman always do that number on everything?

I was surprised they let the little kids of Peter Pan perform outdoors in the cold - which they did not do with the Sound of Music Kids last year. it's only one performance a week away.

I missed the Annie one..I hope to find it on the internet. It's not surprising when you have movie kids who do performances take after take and in pieces until they get it right - compared to stage kids who do it live all the time..and have to nail it each time as well. It shows..

Enjoyed all the performances, especially On The Town. I like they didn't use either star in the Peter Pan performance, the dancing was wonderful.

For those interested, they are repeating the parade now until 4pm.

I know Brynn O'Malley's usual hair (with those awful bangs)does her no favors but whoever decided to make her a blonde should be shot.

The PETER PAN stuff was so over choreographed (big surprise) it was a mess. And the lost men's costumes look like left-overs from Mathilda.
That SIDESHOW number is so cheesy it could be a side dish on a Turkey Day table.

I thought the only decent number was ON THE TOWN.

The On the Town performance was a great way to start the parade. I really enjoyed it and it made me want to see the show again. I went in with such high expectations that I left feeling a bit disappointed, but I really want to try again on it.