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China’s Orwellian social credit controls are in full force at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, where a New Jersey woman was removed from a Rockettes show after facial recognition tagged and ID’d her as an employee of a certain law firm. Security guards “knew my name before I told them,” Kelly Conlon said to NBC New York. “They knew the firm I was associated with before I told them. And they told me I was not allowed to be there.” ... Social credit schemes armed with facial recognition work just as instantly as unlocking an iPhone using Face ID....

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The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" has cancelled all of its upcoming performances due to coronavirus cases among the show's crew. “We regret that we are unable to continue the ‘Christmas Spectacular’ this season,” the show said in a statement Friday, NBC New York reported. “We had hoped we could make it through the season and are honored to have hosted hundreds of thousands of fans at more than 100 shows over the last seven weeks.”

Radio City Music Hall has canceled the Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular for the first time in 87 years due to the coronavirus pandemic. MSG Entertainment, which owns the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, announced Tuesday its decision to close the curtain on the 2020 festive show as infections of the deadly virus continue to surge across America. The annual Spectacular, famous for its sparkling performances by the legendary Radio City Rockettes dance troupe, had been scheduled to run from November 6 to January 3 this year.

The holiday season brings with it festive treats, sparkling lights, and The Radio City Rockettes. And, for many of these high-kicking dancers, running throughout the year ensures they can perfectly execute their routines multiple times a day all season long. In preparation for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the women spend months rehearsing for six hours a day, six days a week. During the height of the Christmas season from the beginning of November through the beginning January, the 36 dancers are performing up to four 90-minute shows a day, as many as 17 per week. During this time, their...

From Wash Post Blogger 'Pat Rockford' 6:11 am EST:I got the straight dope here, from some chicka's daughter my kid sister know: six of the Rockettes have "a little something extra" prepared to offer at the end of their routine. Some shadow legal outfit funded by those damned bleeding hearts is apparently signed up to pay the legal fees. If they don't strip-search these gals before they step on stage, just remember: Paddy here told you so.

What excuse do the Democrats have to claim that Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones in this country who are fascists? Don’t these people ever look in a mirror? The recent nonsense regarding some of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes being unwilling to perform at the Trump inauguration leads to the potential for many parallel examples but with wildly different reactions. For example, a waiter or waitress might determine that a restaurant patron doesn’t agree with them politically. They might tell their boss to find this reprehensible person another server because they refuse to wait on that particular...

Shortly after it was announced that the world famous Radio City Rockettes would be dancing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, reports of discontent among performers in the famed dancing group began to circulate. One performer took to Instagram and stated she was “embarrassed and disappointed” at the prospect of the performance, which triggered more social media backlash from current and former Rockettes. According to an article published by Marie Claire, one dancer couldn’t contain her sadness after being informed that the group would be performing at the inauguration and “tears streamed down her face through all 90...

A well-respected veteran Rockette is urging members of the famed dance troupe to put politics aside and do what they do best — by kicking up a storm at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. “The only thing the Rockettes should be focused on is performing for our nation and helping unite us all with the joy, love, beauty and strength for which they are famous,” says Patty DeCarlo Grantham, a retired member of the world-famous troupe. Grantham, president of the 552-member Rockette Alumnae Association, says she “cringed” when controversy erupted last week over plans to have the Radio City...

Last week, it was announced that the Rockettes would be performing at Donald Trump's inauguration, with the group's union—the American Guild of Variety Artists—mandating the dancers show up to the gig or lose their jobs. After considerable public outcry, Rockettes' management claimed they would not be required to smile and dance at America's gateway to Gozer after all—but in an interview with Marie Claire, one Rockette says she and her fellow dancers are still terrified that there will be more fallout. The Rockette, who wished to remain anonymous, told Marie Claire that though many of the women who declined to...

“For a Rockette to be considered for an event, they must voluntarily sign up and are never told they have to perform at a particular event, including the inaugural,” the company said in a statement, the AP reported. “It is always their choice. In fact, for the coming inauguration, we had more Rockettes request to participate than we have slots available.”

The union representing the famed Radio City troupe ruled any boycott of the Jan. 20 event as "invalid" and that all full-time dancers were "obligated" to work. Team Trump's preparations for the presidential inauguration descended into further drama on Thursday when a dancer from the Radio City Rockettes took to social media to express her disappointment in having to perform at the Jan. 20 event and further aired her fear of losing her job if she refused to do so. Already struggling to attract top talent, the president-elect's inauguration team added two more acts to the roster on Thursday, announcing...

full title....................Participation is voluntary and there's a waitlist: Rockettes hit back at dancer who says she will perform at Trump's inauguration with tears in her eyes....................The famed Radio City Hall Rockettes will not be forced to participate in the group's planned performance next month in Washington DC for Donald Trump's election. The American Guild of Variety Artists, the union which is meant to protect the girls, said that any plans for the women to refuse to perform at the show are invalid. 'Everyone is entitled to her own political beliefs, but there is no room for this in the workplace,'...

President Elect Donald Trump on Thursday secured the Radio City Rockettes to perform at his Jan. 20 inauguration — but at least one dancer was not happy with the decision. Rockette Phoebe Pearl said in an Instagram post Thursday night that she was “embarrassed and disappointed” to appear at the event. [SNIP] “The women I work with are intelligent and are full of love and the decision of performing for a man that stands for everything we’re against is appalling,” she wrote. “I am speaking for just myself but please know that after we found out this news, we have...

After a successful national tour in 2008, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is again scooting across North America this holiday season. Having deep faith in the Rockettes, I believe that whichever 36 troupers stride your way in Dallas or Seattle will give you their merry all, their smiles as white as searchlights and as generous as Santa himself. But having just seen the show in its native habitat, I have a new appreciation for both Radio City Music Hall and for city life itself. Presenting great abundance (without gross excess) and rigorous order (without oppressive rigidity), the Rockettes are a...

Toronto — Santa Claus came to town early Tuesday and he brought some Christmas stockings with him. And the stockings were stuffed with legs. And the legs were attached to six Rockettes, the famed high-kicking dance troupe that has been a staple at New York's Radio City Music Hall since 1933. It was all part of a media event to announce that the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring both Santa and the Rockettes will be making its first road-show appearance in Canada next Christmas — that's right, Christmas 2006 — at Toronto's Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts.