Radio City Christmas Spectacular

By William Tynan

Like the Music Hall itself, Radio City's annual holiday show has been given a grand sprucing up. Worn-out numbers have been retired, classics (Parade of the Wooden Soldiers) polished bright as a Christmas-tree ball, and sprightly new scenes added (White Christmas in New York). A revamped Santa's Workshop is riotously colorful. Santa couldn't ask for an escort with more dash than the Rockette reindeer team that prances at the head of his sleigh, and audiences couldn't hope for a more splendiferous Christmas present.

--By William Tynan