Broadway at the Thanksgiving Day Parade Past and Present

The casts of the Broadway shows Buena Vista Social ClubJust in Time, and Ragtime will perform at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025. The 99th edition of the annual parade  will also of course feature the Radio City Rockettes who this year are celebrating their 100th anniversary. 

Below is a video of the new balloons, one of which I guess you can argue is Broadway affiliated (Shrek), and some of the Broadway performances at the parade over the past decade, including Hamilton in 2016, Lea Michele in 2022, and Billy Porter in 2024.

2020: casts of Hamilton (“The Schuyler Sisters”), Ain’t Too Proud (“My Girl”) and Mean Girls (“Someone Gets Hurt”

2015: On Your Feet, The King and I, Finding Neverland, Something Rotten, Fiddler on the Roof, The Wiz Live, and The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes

2018: Dear Evan Hansen

2022: Lea Michele

2023: “Back to the Future: The Musical,” “Shucked,” “& Juliet,” “How to Dance in Ohio” and “Spamalot,” as well as the Radio City Rockettes.

2024: Billy Porter

Author: New York Theater

Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.

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