Friday, August 9, 2013

The Rockettes Turn The Seasons Upside Down

It’s snowing in Radio City Music Hall even in August, as the Rockettes kick-off the Christmas holiday season on the 13th of this month. Hoping to relieve a bit of the sweltering New York summer weather, Santa Claus is due to arrive from the North Pole at 11am, along with famed ice sculptors from Okamoto Studios.

The sculptors will carve a unique, large, work of art under the marquee at the iconic music showhouse. The Rockettes will be there, and so will the animals from the Living Nativity. John Foxx from WPLJ will participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony as the sculpture is unveiled to the public.

To make the day even cooler the Rockettes, in collaboration with the popular New York City-based ice cream company People’s Pops, will distribute the specially created “Rox Pop” around town. The Rox Pop is a cranberry-apple flavored ice pop, totally inspired by the Christmas Spectacular and the Rockettes. The pops are all natural, and will be given away for free from a Christmas Spectacular-themed food truck as well as from a red double decker Grey Line New York bus. To track the location of the truck New Yorkers can go to Facebook for the times and places the bus and truck will be, including Bryant Park, Madison Square Park, the Beacon Theatre, Union Square and Park Slope.

If you miss the bus and truck, you will be able to get some cool Rox Pops at the People’s Pops shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, from August 14 until October.