November 14, 2023 • 13 mins
The Radio City Rockettes stopped by the 15 Minute Morning Show to talk all about the iconic Christmas Spectacular!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on you on your podcast? Fine, say.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Elvis the fifteen Minute Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is the fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And we are so excited that guests actually dare to
walk through our door for this podcast from the world
famous rockcats Joanne and Alyssa, thank you for coming to
the show. You missed it as they don't walked in.
They high kicked all the way through the hallway and
through the door. Hey you know what, so what since
nineteen thirty three the very first Christmas Spectacular at Radio
(00:40):
City Music Hall, and the tradition continues. I know I've been, Gosh,
I've been at least twenty times.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
In my life.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And you know when the big organ start playing and
Santa Claus comes out and here comes a camel.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, the whole thing is just as the name
says it.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Spectacularvity no matter at the end, Ye how many times
you seen it, you just start bawling. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It is amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I'll start with you, Alyssa, what is it for
you not only being a rock cat, but being a
part of this amazing tradition here in New York City.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I mean, it is literally a dream come true. It
sounds so cheesy to say, but I mean growing up
wanting to be a dancer professionally, and then seeing the
Rockets perform when I was younger on stage and knowing
that that's what I wanted to do my life, and
now getting to do it for ten years now, and
getting to dance with amazing other females like Joanna, and
there's eighty four Rockets, and we all just truly get
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so close, and it's literally it becomes your family, and
we're spending all the holidays together, so it's literally your family.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I gotta say, Alyssa, Joanna and joining I want your
answer in a second ease. I'm I'm just the story
from the rock Cats just fascinates me. The mistake you're
all making is you're not installing a kickometer. So you
said you've been kicking and dancing with the Roquettes since
for ten years. Yes, I wonder how many times you've kicked.
There's got to be a number, and there's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
No way to count it.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I don't think I want to know that at zac number.
But I know in each show we do just over
two hundred kicks a show, and we can do up
to four shows in one day.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But there's rehearsals too.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
It's a lot, I know in rehearsals, So it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We'll ever gone flying or are they just so secure
they never fly off your foot?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're pretty secure.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, they're very secure.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, you know what, Sometimes being in the front row
is not the best place to be. But okay, so
Alyssa for ten years, Joanna, you've been you've been with
the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
For eighteen years that have been Yeah, can you imagine
the life not doing that?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I'm sorry, can you say that again?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm sure? Can you imagine a life not being a rocket?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, I mean we do have a saying, once
a rock at, always a rocket, So I mean it's
one of those things I feel so incredibly just being
able to be on that stage you're after is so
incredibly special, and like like Alyssa's said, we really are
a sisterhood and we're a family, and it's you know,
you've seen the show have very many times. It's part
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of my holiday tradition to be part of the Christmas Spectacular.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Do you have to audition every single year? We audition,
We do.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
We do have to re audition, you know, to continue
to stay up on our technique and make sure we're
in shape because we do rehearse six hours a day,
six days a week. Like Melissa said, we do have
to five shows a day at the Christmas Spectacular, so
it's a very intense schedule. But we're so excited. We
open on November seventh or seventeenth, sorry, and then we
run through January first tickets around sale now and we're
(03:35):
so excited to have audiences in the house and performance
for Christmas year.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We will we will be there again this year. I
have my family coming in and they always say, well,
if anything, if we do anything, it's got to be
the Christmas Spectacular.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But think about this. I mean, this is New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We've got in par State Building, we have Bagelscha.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We have the rock Cast, We've got Pastrami and the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, New York City is a superstar in and
of itself. And of course that's another thing about the
Christs Spectaculary. You showcase this city so beautifully and it's
it's amazing. So I hate to go down this road,
but in showbiz sometimes things happen. Has there been ever
been like a weird mishap that you just look back
on it and go, oh my gosh, we got through that.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That was kind of funny. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I mean, it is live theater, and it's funny that
you mentioned New York City being transformed and being so
iconic by itself. But actually one of my favorite numbers
in the show is New York at Christmas and the
rock at stance on an actual life sized double decker
city bus tour bus, and it kind of takes the
audience like through the city through Fifth Avenue in Central Park.
There's ice skaters that come on stage and actually ice
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skate on stage with us. So we have had the
bus breakdown a couple times on stage. I mean, everything
at Radio City is so well coreographed. We have Plan B,
so if that happens, we just hold the show. They
get the bus off the stage, the rockets come off
the bus. We still do our dance says if nothing happens,
and the show must go on.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
As they said, you're rehearsing before Like, you know, the
show opens November seventeen, but how many months or weeks
are you rehearsing beforehand? Yeah, So we started rehearsing this
year on October seventh. We rehearse for about a month.
We have about two weeks of tech, which we are
wrapping up now, and then we have audiences. So it's
it's a lot of rehearsal to prep before we even
(05:29):
move into the theater. But again, we're just we're so
excited to spread Christmas cheer.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
And I have a question, Elvis, maybe i'd be permitted
to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Now, hold on, we're about to get into a segment
called ask a roquette.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Should we just start that? Now? Go ahead? So ask?
So they've got the answers. What do you want to
You've been doing.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
This for eighteen ALYSSI been so you're basically professional Rockets
at this point.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Let's just say it your professional rock Cats.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So what is you?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
When is your last show of the season? What is
the date?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
This year? We close on January first?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Okay, so January first? January second? Do you even get
out of bed.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Or do you like, Oh, there's a lot of recovery
time for me.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I take you.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Just think of that like a professional athlete. Baseball season ends,
they don't pick up a bat until February.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Sometimes, do you not raise your legs until and I.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Don't mean that, do you not kick until like maybe June
or July?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Like is this like you know I need to rest I.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Mean absolutely we take time to rest our legs that
Christmas season. We do a lot of shows and a
very short amount of time. We spread a lot of
spread a lot of holiday cheer. So definitely taking time
after the season is important. But you know, we are
professional athletes and dancers. We do other things throughout the year,
so I've ever been life outside of rockets is very different.
(06:54):
Like for myself, I teach pilate's so that's my main
my main job, but I'm not kicking. I high on
the radio city stage. Other girls will dance in Broadway shows,
and then we do other events throughout the year as well,
like America's got talent, So there's would you giving me greade?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Have you all done the things I have?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So how do you do it when it's like the weather's.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Been kind of nice lately, but the years that it's
so cold? How do you get through it?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I think it's a lot of adoreurnaline. I mean that
is how I grew up knowing the rock ats is
from watching them on the Macy Things Giving Day Parade.
So getting to do that and like check that off
my rock At to do.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
List was priceless.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But it's very cold.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I'm not gonna lie, but adorenaline kicks in and then
your training kicks in and you hear the music and
you just go into performance mode and it's definitely an
experience I'll never forget and I love that that's still
part of the tradition of the parade and of the
rock Ats as well.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Nice well, of course every year, I think Dance of
the uh, the Living Utivity is my favorite, but also
the Parrey of the Wooden Soldiers. Yes, it is that
the one we you slowly fall into each other.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And you follow that is exactly it. It's so weird
to watch that, it's so crazy. But this year Dance
of the Frost Fairies. This is this.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean, it's a whole new thing you're doing with this.
It's a big digital thing. Can you describe what Dance
of the Frost Fairies is about to everyone listening?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, so, uh, this number, it's about the first snowfall
and the Frost Fairies come to life and they start
spreading Christmas cheer. And that's exactly what we do on stage.
There's fairy drones that fly out over the audience, so
it's an immersive experience, and the rockets are just as
fairies as well. We dance in tandem with the fairy drones,
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and it truly is a winter wonderland inside Radio City.
It's a really fun number.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
We're excited to share an audience.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
How often do you guys get hit up by people
you know for free tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I have a bunch of friends coming to town, every
single one.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Can you get me into the Rockets? I'm like, I'm
pretty sure those are on.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Sale at come by the box office.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Get your tickets.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You're having a pile that you give away to friends
and family during the season.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean, right, I mean I think for all of us,
our families love coming to support. It's always exciting when
we have friends and people that you know in the audience.
And I think one thing that is really special that
we try to remember on those hard days when we
are doing a lot of shows and a lot of
kicks and movie our legs are a little tired, is
that in the audience there is somebody that is their
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first time seeing the Christmas spectacular and knowing that you know.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
My first time is going to be on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh you've never been. You've never been my whole life.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh my god, you're Weirdos. You're gonna love it. Gandhistti,
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
It's excited.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You will become addicted to it, because I mean, I
know I am and then and again the first performances.
If you're listening on the week of wearing, Friday the
seventeenth is the first performance, but it goes on, as
they were saying, till January first, So even after Christmas,
leading up to New Year's it's still happening, sometimes five
shows per day, which just wears me up thinking about it.
(10:09):
But it's such an honor to have you here anymore.
Ask a rocket questions you have one, yes, okay, just
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
So as you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know you were saying that when you were a
little girl, you know you aspired to be a rocket.
What advice do you ladies have now having done this
all these years, have four people that are aspiring to
become tomorrow's rockets.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I love that. I think that's a great question, and
I take so much pride and like gratitude for the
job that I do. But it is a hard rehearsal process.
It is an intense season, so lots of hard work
goes into the lead up of putting up the show.
So definitely just like lots of hard work and if
this is your dream, it is so well worth it.
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But I think that's what makes the Rockets so amazing
as we are these amazing dancers, but we're athletes, we're strong.
We trained year round for this and it's like I said,
it's literally a dream come true gets to do it.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So yeah, you know, years ago we used to come
in i think pre season during dress rehearsals and we
bring kids from schools around uh New York City and
to see the show, right Danielle, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We actually were on stage. I think we introlled one
of the shows once.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, several years we did that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What was great at being backstage to see what you
guys see because you'll see the Rockcats they're running to
get in a position and then go and then you
run on on the stage and your backstage and then
the camel walks by.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, we absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, I mean and all the animals you have there
for Nativity scene is just it's animals.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Ye, animals, and it's spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Have you ever cleaned up camel dung before living contract?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, the Rock has just kick it out of the way.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I mean, I will say the backstage choreography is just
as important as what you see on stage. You have
an incredible cast and crew of over two hundred and
the show would not be possible without everyone's involvement. Right,
things go smoothly on stage because things backstage are going
to So things are as choreographed backstage as much as
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they are on stage.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I can't imagine literally city of people backstage making this production.
It's not just us on stage, it's everyone behind the
scenes as well.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And you know, it's the Radio City Music Hall, which
I've been a suit of a Rockefeller Center and since
I was a kid, all books, all the pictures in
the history of the building and everything that's happened with
the Rock. So it's just fascinating to be working in that.
Sometimes people call it I don't know usures. So Rock
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catch kicking through what you sound.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Like the ghost of Christmas?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That is happening again?
Speaker 7 (12:55):
It back, You're there, You're there in amongst the little
bit of digital garble.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
All right, we'll go wrap up here. Okay, I don't it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well again, if people want to get tickets, people want
to come out to see you, how can they do that?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So everyone should go to rackets dot com
to get tickets, or you can visit the Radio City
box office. We run through January first. We open on
November seventeenth, and we hope you will come to the
show and let us be part of your holiday traditions.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
This season, I'm going for the first time. All right,
we'll have a new performance. Thank you, thank you so much,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Christmas, Christmas. The Fifteen Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on you on your podcast? Fine, say.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Elvis the fifteen Minute Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is the fifteen Minute Morning Show podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
And we are so excited that guests actually dare to
walk through our door for this podcast from the world
famous rockcats Joanne and Alyssa, thank you for coming to
the show. You missed it as they don't walked in.
They high kicked all the way through the hallway and
through the door. Hey you know what, so what since
nineteen thirty three the very first Christmas Spectacular at Radio
(00:40):
City Music Hall, and the tradition continues. I know I've been, Gosh,
I've been at least twenty times.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
In my life.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And you know when the big organ start playing and
Santa Claus comes out and here comes a camel.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I mean, the whole thing is just as the name
says it.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Spectacularvity no matter at the end, Ye how many times
you seen it, you just start bawling. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It is amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So I'll start with you, Alyssa, what is it for
you not only being a rock cat, but being a
part of this amazing tradition here in New York City.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I mean, it is literally a dream come true. It
sounds so cheesy to say, but I mean growing up
wanting to be a dancer professionally, and then seeing the
Rockets perform when I was younger on stage and knowing
that that's what I wanted to do my life, and
now getting to do it for ten years now, and
getting to dance with amazing other females like Joanna, and
there's eighty four Rockets, and we all just truly get
(01:37):
so close, and it's literally it becomes your family, and
we're spending all the holidays together, so it's literally your family.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I gotta say, Alyssa, Joanna and joining I want your
answer in a second ease. I'm I'm just the story
from the rock Cats just fascinates me. The mistake you're
all making is you're not installing a kickometer. So you
said you've been kicking and dancing with the Roquettes since
for ten years. Yes, I wonder how many times you've kicked.
There's got to be a number, and there's.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
No way to count it.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I don't think I want to know that at zac number.
But I know in each show we do just over
two hundred kicks a show, and we can do up
to four shows in one day.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But there's rehearsals too.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
It's a lot, I know in rehearsals, So it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We'll ever gone flying or are they just so secure
they never fly off your foot?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They're pretty secure.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, they're very secure.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, you know what, Sometimes being in the front row
is not the best place to be. But okay, so
Alyssa for ten years, Joanna, you've been you've been with
the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
For eighteen years that have been Yeah, can you imagine
the life not doing that?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I'm sorry, can you say that again?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'm sure? Can you imagine a life not being a rocket?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I mean, I mean we do have a saying, once
a rock at, always a rocket, So I mean it's
one of those things I feel so incredibly just being
able to be on that stage you're after is so
incredibly special, and like like Alyssa's said, we really are
a sisterhood and we're a family, and it's you know,
you've seen the show have very many times. It's part
(03:06):
of my holiday tradition to be part of the Christmas Spectacular.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Do you have to audition every single year? We audition,
We do.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
We do have to re audition, you know, to continue
to stay up on our technique and make sure we're
in shape because we do rehearse six hours a day,
six days a week. Like Melissa said, we do have
to five shows a day at the Christmas Spectacular, so
it's a very intense schedule. But we're so excited. We
open on November seventh or seventeenth, sorry, and then we
run through January first tickets around sale now and we're
(03:35):
so excited to have audiences in the house and performance
for Christmas year.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We will we will be there again this year. I
have my family coming in and they always say, well,
if anything, if we do anything, it's got to be
the Christmas Spectacular.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But think about this. I mean, this is New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We've got in par State Building, we have Bagelscha.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We have the rock Cast, We've got Pastrami and the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, New York City is a superstar in and
of itself. And of course that's another thing about the
Christs Spectaculary. You showcase this city so beautifully and it's
it's amazing. So I hate to go down this road,
but in showbiz sometimes things happen. Has there been ever
been like a weird mishap that you just look back
on it and go, oh my gosh, we got through that.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That was kind of funny. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I mean, it is live theater, and it's funny that
you mentioned New York City being transformed and being so
iconic by itself. But actually one of my favorite numbers
in the show is New York at Christmas and the
rock at stance on an actual life sized double decker
city bus tour bus, and it kind of takes the
audience like through the city through Fifth Avenue in Central Park.
There's ice skaters that come on stage and actually ice
(04:47):
skate on stage with us. So we have had the
bus breakdown a couple times on stage. I mean, everything
at Radio City is so well coreographed. We have Plan B,
so if that happens, we just hold the show. They
get the bus off the stage, the rockets come off
the bus. We still do our dance says if nothing happens,
and the show must go on.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
As they said, you're rehearsing before Like, you know, the
show opens November seventeen, but how many months or weeks
are you rehearsing beforehand? Yeah, So we started rehearsing this
year on October seventh. We rehearse for about a month.
We have about two weeks of tech, which we are
wrapping up now, and then we have audiences. So it's
it's a lot of rehearsal to prep before we even
(05:29):
move into the theater. But again, we're just we're so
excited to spread Christmas cheer.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
And I have a question, Elvis, maybe i'd be permitted
to ask.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Now, hold on, we're about to get into a segment
called ask a roquette.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Should we just start that? Now? Go ahead? So ask?
So they've got the answers. What do you want to
You've been doing.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
This for eighteen ALYSSI been so you're basically professional Rockets
at this point.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Let's just say it your professional rock Cats.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So what is you?
Speaker 7 (05:59):
When is your last show of the season? What is
the date?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
This year? We close on January first?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Okay, so January first? January second? Do you even get
out of bed.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Or do you like, Oh, there's a lot of recovery
time for me.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I take you.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Just think of that like a professional athlete. Baseball season ends,
they don't pick up a bat until February.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Sometimes, do you not raise your legs until and I.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
Don't mean that, do you not kick until like maybe June
or July?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Like is this like you know I need to rest I.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Mean absolutely we take time to rest our legs that
Christmas season. We do a lot of shows and a
very short amount of time. We spread a lot of
spread a lot of holiday cheer. So definitely taking time
after the season is important. But you know, we are
professional athletes and dancers. We do other things throughout the year,
so I've ever been life outside of rockets is very different.
(06:54):
Like for myself, I teach pilate's so that's my main
my main job, but I'm not kicking. I high on
the radio city stage. Other girls will dance in Broadway shows,
and then we do other events throughout the year as well,
like America's got talent, So there's would you giving me greade?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Have you all done the things I have?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So how do you do it when it's like the weather's.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Been kind of nice lately, but the years that it's
so cold? How do you get through it?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I think it's a lot of adoreurnaline. I mean that
is how I grew up knowing the rock ats is
from watching them on the Macy Things Giving Day Parade.
So getting to do that and like check that off
my rock At to do.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
List was priceless.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But it's very cold.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I'm not gonna lie, but adorenaline kicks in and then
your training kicks in and you hear the music and
you just go into performance mode and it's definitely an
experience I'll never forget and I love that that's still
part of the tradition of the parade and of the
rock Ats as well.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Nice well, of course every year, I think Dance of
the uh, the Living Utivity is my favorite, but also
the Parrey of the Wooden Soldiers. Yes, it is that
the one we you slowly fall into each other.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And you follow that is exactly it. It's so weird
to watch that, it's so crazy. But this year Dance
of the Frost Fairies. This is this.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I mean, it's a whole new thing you're doing with this.
It's a big digital thing. Can you describe what Dance
of the Frost Fairies is about to everyone listening?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, so, uh, this number, it's about the first snowfall
and the Frost Fairies come to life and they start
spreading Christmas cheer. And that's exactly what we do on stage.
There's fairy drones that fly out over the audience, so
it's an immersive experience, and the rockets are just as
fairies as well. We dance in tandem with the fairy drones,
(08:40):
and it truly is a winter wonderland inside Radio City.
It's a really fun number.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
We're excited to share an audience.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
How often do you guys get hit up by people
you know for free tickets.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I have a bunch of friends coming to town, every
single one.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Can you get me into the Rockets? I'm like, I'm
pretty sure those are on.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Sale at come by the box office.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Get your tickets.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You're having a pile that you give away to friends
and family during the season.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean, right, I mean I think for all of us,
our families love coming to support. It's always exciting when
we have friends and people that you know in the audience.
And I think one thing that is really special that
we try to remember on those hard days when we
are doing a lot of shows and a lot of
kicks and movie our legs are a little tired, is
that in the audience there is somebody that is their
(09:29):
first time seeing the Christmas spectacular and knowing that you know.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
My first time is going to be on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh you've never been. You've never been my whole life.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh my god, you're Weirdos. You're gonna love it. Gandhistti,
You're gonna love it.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
It's excited.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You will become addicted to it, because I mean, I
know I am and then and again the first performances.
If you're listening on the week of wearing, Friday the
seventeenth is the first performance, but it goes on, as
they were saying, till January first, So even after Christmas,
leading up to New Year's it's still happening, sometimes five
shows per day, which just wears me up thinking about it.
(10:09):
But it's such an honor to have you here anymore.
Ask a rocket questions you have one, yes, okay, just
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
So as you.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
You know you were saying that when you were a
little girl, you know you aspired to be a rocket.
What advice do you ladies have now having done this
all these years, have four people that are aspiring to
become tomorrow's rockets.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I love that. I think that's a great question, and
I take so much pride and like gratitude for the
job that I do. But it is a hard rehearsal process.
It is an intense season, so lots of hard work
goes into the lead up of putting up the show.
So definitely just like lots of hard work and if
this is your dream, it is so well worth it.
(10:50):
But I think that's what makes the Rockets so amazing
as we are these amazing dancers, but we're athletes, we're strong.
We trained year round for this and it's like I said,
it's literally a dream come true gets to do it.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So yeah, you know, years ago we used to come
in i think pre season during dress rehearsals and we
bring kids from schools around uh New York City and
to see the show, right Danielle, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We actually were on stage. I think we introlled one
of the shows once.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, several years we did that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What was great at being backstage to see what you
guys see because you'll see the Rockcats they're running to
get in a position and then go and then you
run on on the stage and your backstage and then
the camel walks by.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, we absolutely do.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, I mean and all the animals you have there
for Nativity scene is just it's animals.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Ye, animals, and it's spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Have you ever cleaned up camel dung before living contract?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, the Rock has just kick it out of the way.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I mean, I will say the backstage choreography is just
as important as what you see on stage. You have
an incredible cast and crew of over two hundred and
the show would not be possible without everyone's involvement. Right,
things go smoothly on stage because things backstage are going
to So things are as choreographed backstage as much as
(12:14):
they are on stage.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
I can't imagine literally city of people backstage making this production.
It's not just us on stage, it's everyone behind the
scenes as well.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
And you know, it's the Radio City Music Hall, which
I've been a suit of a Rockefeller Center and since
I was a kid, all books, all the pictures in
the history of the building and everything that's happened with
the Rock. So it's just fascinating to be working in that.
Sometimes people call it I don't know usures. So Rock
(12:44):
catch kicking through what you sound.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Like the ghost of Christmas?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That is happening again?
Speaker 7 (12:55):
It back, You're there, You're there in amongst the little
bit of digital garble.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
All right, we'll go wrap up here. Okay, I don't it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well again, if people want to get tickets, people want
to come out to see you, how can they do that?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So everyone should go to rackets dot com
to get tickets, or you can visit the Radio City
box office. We run through January first. We open on
November seventeenth, and we hope you will come to the
show and let us be part of your holiday traditions.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
This season, I'm going for the first time. All right,
we'll have a new performance. Thank you, thank you so much,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
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