Originally Posted by
thommg
Gary, many years ago I worked at Santaland at Macy's. I was chosen to be an elf [[my job there) to be on the Clydesdale float with Linda Ronstadt. She was doing a version of La Boheme at the Public Theatre. We were scheduled to stop in front of Macy's so she could lip synch her song for 45 seconds. That was all the time she had! Unfortunately, she got sick and we had a new country/western duo on the float. We did NOT stop in front of Macy's. Those floats are timed and when the time ends they just go. If you taped the parade, you can see Andy Grammer not quite ready for that as his song ends, and he topples a bit to one side. Smokey's ending was fairly typical - he had over a minute, and then they cut to the walkers as the song ended so they could get the commercial bump in.
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