Cher, Broadway Stars Among Revelers Set For Extended Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Greg Evans
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Cher, Jon Batiste and the Broadway casts of & Juliet, Back to the Future, How To Dance In Ohio, Shucked, and Spamalot will perform at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, with the annual event kicking off a half-hour earlier than usual.

Both the Parade and the NBC broadcast will kick off at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, November 23, a half-hour earlier than the traditional 9 a.m. start. The event also will include a special appearance by Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells of Broadway’s Gutenberg! The Musical!

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Details of the Parade were announced today. In addition to Cher, who recently released Christmas, her first holiday album ever, Batiste and the Broadway productions, the Thanksgiving event will include appearances and performances by, among others, Bell Biv DeVoe; Brandy; En Vogue; David Foster and Katharine McPhee; Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors; Jessie James Decker; U.S. Paralympic Gold Medalist Jessica Long; Ashley Park with the cast and Muppets of Sesame Street; Pentatonix; and, of course, the Radio City Rockettes.

The 97th Macy’s Parade lineup will include 5,000 volunteers, 16 featured character balloons, 26 floats, 32 heritage and novelty balloons, more than 700 clowns, 12 marching bands and nine performance groups, according to Parade officials. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast is produced by the Brad Lachman Productions. Brad Lachman and Bill Bracken serve as executive producers and Joe DeMaio directs.

For the complete Parade line-up, go here.


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