The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is a lavish tradition set at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. This Broadway revue attracts an audience from across the nation and even across international borders. Each year the show celebrates the holidays with a production revolving around Santa Claus and the world-famous Rockettes. Radio City tickets for this upcoming 2010 revue are available now to celebrate the upcoming season of good cheer with the Christmas Spectacular.

This is a show with long-established roots dating back to 1933 when radio was still king and movie houses were palaces. That first year, the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show accompanied a movie, Flying Down to Rio. Leon Leonidoff and Vincente Minelli crafted a show with an overture conducted by Erno Rapee and the Radio City Symphony, a Mighty Wurlitzer Organ solo, a toy shop ballet, a Russell Martin-choreographed "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" featuring the Rockettes, and "The Living Nativity." As the years have passed and the show expanded from a 30-minute companion piece to a feature film to a 90-minute feature, the Rockettes rendition of parading wooden soldiers and a live rendition of the nativity scene have become New York holiday traditions.

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular made that jump from a short program to a long program in 1979, after the Music Hall stopped showing feature films. With each passing year, the show is wise enough to update much of the program, keeping it fresh and contemporary. Eventually the Christmas Spectacular became so sensational, the revue left the Radio City Music Hall and embarked on a full-fledged national tour.