The 95th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will welcome back public viewing along designated portions of the route this year, after a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic. In addition, there will be live performances from the current Broadway musicals Six, Moulin Rouge!, and Wicked as well as the cast of NBC’s upcoming Annie Live! and The Radio City Rockettes. Show tunes will also be heard from Trabuco Hills H.S. Thundering Mustangs Marching Unit (Mission Viejo, Calif.), who will play “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka, and Union H.S. Renegade Regiment (Tulsa, Okla.), who will play the title song from Oklahoma!
Other participating stage veterans include Kristin Chenoweth (on Balsam Hill’s Deck the Halls float), Darren Criss (on Kinder’s Fantasy Chocolate Factory float), Jordan Fisher (singing “Together We Set Sail” on Disney Cruise Line’s “Magic Meets the Sea” float), and Sara Bareilles and Renée Elise Goldsberry (representing Girls5eva on Netflix’s “Birds of a Feather Stream Together” float), as well as The Muppets (singing “See Us Coming Together” on the “1-2-3 Sesame Street” float).
The parade kicks off at 77th Street and Central Park West, then heads down Sixth Avenue, before ending at Macy’s Herald Square, where Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, and Al Roker of The Today Show will host the telecast from 9 a.m. to noon, November 25, on NBC. Below is the short documentary “Crafted With Love: 95 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades” about the team that builds and creates the annual event.