HAIR, 'BIRDIE', Krakowski and More Set for the 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 11/26

The magical procession returns to the Big Apple this November as the 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off the holiday season.

On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at
9:00am at the sound of Let's Have a Parade, America's favorite holiday spectacular will step off with its signature giant helium balloons, floats of fantasy, marching bands, clowns, celebrity and large performance groups, and the one-and-only Santa Claus.

Broadway talent will also be performing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Broadway show performances in the first hour include:

Bye Bye Birdie- "Put on a Happy Face"
Hair- "Aquarius"
Billy Elliot- "Shine"
Shrek- "I'm a Believer"

Additional Broadway/theatre talent performing in the Parade: Radio City Rockettes

Jane Krakowski will be performing an original song written by Emmy nominated composers Wesley Whatley and William Schermerhorn (both of Macy's Parade & Entertainment Group- " I Believe" the theme song to the 2008 Macy's Parade was nominated for an Emmy this past year)

Alan Cumming will be performing "That's Life" on the M&M's on Broadway float!

The 83rd edition of the Macy's Parade will not only feature fantastic new elements and fan favorites, it will also mark a milestone moment in Parade history. Having marched down parts of Broadway for 82 years, the 2009 procession will be the first to bypass Broadway in the long running march. Over the years the Macy's Parade route has changed five times traveling through several different paths, from having initially stepped off in Harlem to its current 77th Street launch, the route has changed with the times.

The 2009 Macy's Parade will begin at 77th Street and Central Park West, travel down to Columbus Circle where it will turn onto Central Park South. Once the Parade reaches 7th Avenue it will turn once more and march down 7th Avenue through Times Square to 42nd Street. At the famed intersection it will turn east to 6th Avenue and begin its final march down the Avenue of the Americas to 34th Street where it will turn towards Macy's famed flagship and end at 7th Avenue marking a
2.65-mile march.

Public information on the 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is available by logging on to www.macysparade.com or calling the Macy's Parade Hotline at (212) 494-4495.

 

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski