Wesley Whatley News

With school out, snow on the ground and kids eagerly anticipating toys under the tree, the holidays are the ideal time for family entertainment. Note, for the record, that I didn't say 'children's entertainment.' There is a world of difference between entertaining kids and entertaining an entire family. For a prime example of the latter, take this past weekend's concert by the New York Pops.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song 2: After The Storm, a second helping of extraordinary new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song 2: After The Storm will be presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, December 7th at 7 PM.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song 2: After The Storm, a second helping of extraordinary new music to benefit The North RampartCommunity Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm.

Stage and screen star Jane Krakowski performs the song 'With You I'm Home' written by Wesley Whatley and William Schermerhorn.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song 2: After The Storm, a second helping of extraordinary new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song 2: After The Storm will be presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, December 7th at 7 PM.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song 2: After The Storm, a second helping of extraordinary new music to benefit The North RampartCommunity Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm.

Cheyenne Jackson, currently starring on Broadway in the hit revival of 'Finian's Rainbow' and who recently joined the cast of NBC's Emmy-award winning series '30 Rock' will join the celebrity lineup in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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.

The 83rd edition of the Macy's Parade will mark a milestone in Parade history, going where it has never gone before. Having marched down parts of Broadway for 82 years, the 2009 procession will be the first to bypass Broadway in the long running march, lighting up 7th Avenue in its place.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song: After The Storm, an extraordinary night of new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song: After The Storm will be presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, August 31st at 7 PM.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song: After The Storm, an extraordinary night of new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song: After The Storm will be presented at Joe?s Pub on Monday, August 31st at 7 PM.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song: After The Storm, an extraordinary night of new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song: After The Storm will be presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, August 31st at 7 PM.

Randy Redd presents We Are The Song: After The Storm, an extraordinary night of new music to benefit The North Rampart Community Center and to celebrate the work that began in New Orleans...After The Storm. We Are The Song: After The Storm will be presented at Joe?s Pub on Monday, August 31st at 7 PM.

Camp Broadway, under the direction of Artistic Director Tony Parise, has been selected to perform the parade's closing number, 'I Believe in Santa Claus' with music written by Wesley Whatley and lyrics by Bill Schermerhorn, Macy's Creative Director.

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education and audience development company and American icon, Kermit the Frog, will lead 300 performance-loving kids, ages 10-17, in an original Closing number 'I Believe in Santa Claus,' live in the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be televised on NBC-TV on November 27, 2008 beginning at 9am. BWW Special Correspondent Liz Maurer had a secret meet and greet with Kermit where he clued her in on all the holiday fun!

Shopping at Macy's at Christmas is an experience steeped in tradition. The home of beloved holiday events across the country, Macy's will be celebrating the season with such favorites as Macy's Santaland, animated holiday windows, tree lightings, fireworks and parades.

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education and audience development company and American icon, Kermit the Frog, will lead 300 performance-loving kids, ages 10-17, in an original Closing number 'I Believe in Santa Claus,' live in the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be televised on NBC-TV on November 27, 2008 beginning at 9am.

Shopping at Macy's at Christmas is an experience steeped in tradition. The home of beloved holiday events across the country, Macy's will be celebrating the season with such favorites as Macy's Santaland, animated holiday windows, tree lightings, fireworks and parades. In addition to the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?, here are some of the Macy's traditions - old and new - in cities around the country.

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education and audience development company and American icon, Kermit the Frog, will lead 300 performance-loving kids, ages 10-17, in an original Closing number 'I Believe in Santa Claus,' live in the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be televised on NBC-TV on November 27, 2008 beginning at 9am.

On Thursday, November 27th at 9:00 AM the magic takes to the skies and the streets of the Big Apple in America's favorite Parade.