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Radio City Music Spectacular shuts down amid COVID-19 spike in NYC
Thehill ^ | 12/17/2021 | NATALIE PRIEB

Posted on 12/17/2021 5:41:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: christmas; covid; deblasio; forevercovid; kathyhochul; newyork; nyc; radiocity; rockettes; shutdown
New York City isn't going to have an economy soon. Always stuck on stupid
1 posted on 12/17/2021 5:41:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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There’s nothing quite like NYC! Right? Right?


2 posted on 12/17/2021 5:43:37 PM PST by avenir
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is only the beginning. I bet Broadway is next and no office work thru April!


3 posted on 12/17/2021 5:45:33 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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NYC has a death wish—if they keep working on it they may get what they want.


4 posted on 12/17/2021 5:46:30 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Proof once again that everything they told us to do to protect ourselves from covid was wrong.


5 posted on 12/17/2021 6:00:52 PM PST by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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6 posted on 12/17/2021 6:01:55 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NYC. It's got a death curse.
7 posted on 12/17/2021 6:06:15 PM PST by conservative98
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Liberals just love to suck the joy out of everything.

I was walking through Rockefeller Center just over a week ago, huge crowds were coming out of Radio City after an afternoon show and many were gathered around the Christmas tree and ice skating rink. People were happy and I thought NYC maybe had turned a corner, even though further down 6th Avenue, there was the burnt out tree by FoxNews.

But I guess not. People were having too good of a time so the liberals had to clamp down on that.

The residents of NYC only have themselves to blame. They keep voting these horrible people into political power.

8 posted on 12/17/2021 7:05:44 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 69 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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If NYC is so reliably lib, why was RCV just shoved down its throat?


9 posted on 12/17/2021 7:15:18 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Crap! My brother and his girlfriend are singers and were part of the show. The whole family in NY was supposed to see them perform this weekend.


10 posted on 12/17/2021 8:10:31 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: Dr. Ursus

They probably hadn’t sold enough tickets and are using a made-up crisis to cut their losses.


11 posted on 12/18/2021 4:10:52 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh jeeze, I guess I won’t be able to spend $150 a ticket, $15.00 in bridge tolls, $60.00 in parking, $200.00 for dinner just to fight the crowds, smells the piss on the subway, get accosted by Elmo in Times square, relish in the diversity of what was once a great city, and end up getting robbed by some “youth” with a record as long as my arm.

I am so disappointed.


12 posted on 12/18/2021 4:57:45 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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The DoodleBob family loved going to the Christmas Spectacular when I worked in NYC. It really is quite spectacular, everything...the music, the sets, the dancing, and the graphics. And I'm not a show guy at all.

Yes it was expensive, and finding parking for an SUV in Midtown was a hassle but it was always worth it. Finally, back in the day, Manhattan was a friendly place at that time of year.

What many people don't know, is that at the very end of the Spectacular, they have an incredible retelling of the Birth of Jesus, complete with live camels and a glorious musical accompaniment. It literally made the hair on my arms stand up and my heart swell with joy. And this is in the middle of leftism HQ.

I recently posted on what seems to be the possible long-run ramifications for Manhattan of this tyrannical leftist lurch in the US. Please understand, I used to love NYC (I worked there for decades). However, even before the pandemic, it stopped being cutting edge. You work there and you know, even for conservatives, Manhattan had a lot of offer in terms of innovation, culture, business, and insights into the human condition.

Now, a good bit of that cutting edge spice has migrated nationally. Manhattan isn't the epicenter of radicalism. Places like Austin have sort of stepped up and it's not as expensive or overbearing. Further, with many offices routinely scrapping "back to office" plans, it's not often needed to WORK in Manhattan (though face time is real and I don't see that fading over the next 10 years).

Therefore, in a classic example of success-breeding-failure, the national lurch toward leftism may have robbed Manhattan of its relevance. To wit: why bother dealing with all the NYC headaches (i.e. Parking, harassment, high prices, etc) when you can get that Manhattan spice in your local city or online?

NYC will never completely implode; it's obituary has been written prematurely many times previous. But I suspect it won't quite return to its prepandemic peak in terms of relevance. And maybe the Rockettes will move to NJ or CT next year, just like all of the conferences I used to attend in Midtown.

13 posted on 12/18/2021 7:44:55 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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