Radio City Music Hall Xmas Spectacular- Live or Canned?

This is probably no help whatsoever, but I managed the box office for one of the road companies of the RCCS last year and the music was definitely canned. It may be live in NYC but definitely pre-recorded on the road.

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The music is live in New York and via electronics on the road. Last year there was a disasterous happening with the New York local musicians union (802) when the musicians walked off the job because of stalled negotiations and when one thing led to another Radio city "locked out" the orchestra and began using "canned" music for a time. Eventually the musicians union agreed to Radio City contract terms and the musicians returned to the show.

Here is some general info on the radio city show in NYC including orch. size.

Two casts usually comprise a full day of Xmas Spectacular performances.
Show requires 60 dressers on the deck plus additional wiggists, hat people, shoe people and general maintenance (stitchers, etc.).
350-400 total crew + cast to do the show
120 deck crew @ performance
NEVER the same crew members in the same track, performance to performance. A particular person might repeat a track or shift to a different track or just be at a different theatre.
36 orchestra members plus two Wurlitzer organists.

Winston, as a member of local 802 myself, I can assure you without hesitation that the Radio City orchestra members are members of local 802. You are confusing the musicans local with individual producers contracts with the musicians union. The "league" handles the Broadway contracts via 802 and Radio City entertainment handles their musicians contracts via 802 for events at Radio City and Madison Square Garden, et al.

that's odd. the singing is canned??? those poor girls can't sing? I never knew that...

I never knew this show HAD a tour...when do they do that?

I thought there were three casts, morning, afternoon and evening. Is it true that if you are Rockette as long as you can do the steps and want to do the show you have a job? A friend who worked on the show as a Rockette a few years back told me that one of the girls was 54. Aside from Christmas and Easter she works in a bookshop.