Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will go on with no audience due to COVID-19
Written by laserteam on November 13, 2020
(Fox News) – The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will still have a lineup of star-studded theatrical and musical performances, but there will be no crowds of onlookers this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Floats and performers will travel just one city block down 34th Street– as opposed to their two-and-a-half-mile route starting at West 77th Street– and the streets surrounding the site will be closed off, even during the planning stages, to prevent onlookers from congregating, according to reports by The New York Times.
In past years, uniformed handlers have flown the giant balloons throughout the parade, but this year, they will be driven by utility vehicles to limit the number of people involved in the production, which has already been pared down from between 8,000 and 10,000 people working on the route, to about 1,500 this year.
Pre-filmed Broadway productions of “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations,” “Hamilton,” “Jagged Little Pill,” and “Mean Girls,” as well as the Radio City Rockettes will all be broadcast during the Nov. 26 show that will be a television-only event.
