Day Parade on NBC had already been basting for months when the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to cook up a new way to pull it off.
The biggest change: This year’s 94th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be for television audiences only. There won’t be the normal 2.5-mile parade route or crowds along the way; instead, the event will be tied only to the cameras in front of the Macy’s Herald Square flagship store on 34th Street in New York City.
Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker of NBC’s “Today Show” will host the three-hour telecast, produced by Brad Lachman Prods. Jimmy Fallon and the Roots are scheduled to open the show. The production will be aired seamlessly so that viewers won’t necessarily be able to tell what’s live and what’s not. Some of the balloons, for example, will be live, while others will be pre-taped. According to Macy’s and NBC, “the overall number of participants have now been reduced by approximately 88 percent, and split over three days.”
Instead, this year’s parade will rely on performances and elements from other New York City parades that didn’t get a chance to march this year, such as the Puerto Rican Day, St. Patrick’s Day, NYC Pride, West Indian Day and Coney Island USA Mermaid parades. “You’re still going to see them flying high,” Tercero said. “It’s just the way that they are being carried down the street is different. We have done many, many iterations of this and training to try and make sure that this is the right way to go. I think it’s going to still get the same essence and the balloons flying high amongst the buildings that we’re used to seeing.”
Not unless you live on the route they take. Just open your front door and walk out.
There will be a live event in NYC. How is the City going to keep people away?
Of course, we wouldn't want to get Cuomo or Blasio's panties in a wad.
How are they going to make people stay in their homes?
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