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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |  Macy's New York, New York City
26 Nov 2009 (annual)
Celebrating Thanksgiving Day, Macy's colourful parade is one of New York's best. It features clowns, floats, marching bands and plenty of celebrities. Gigantic helium balloons shaped like cartoon heroes reaching high into the sky steal the show. |
Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro |  Metropolitan Opera House, New York City
27 Nov 2009 (various dates)
Mozart's comic masterpiece, Le Nozze di Figaro, returns to New York's Metropolitan Opera House with some of opera's most notable young talent, many of them in company debuts or new roles. Danielle de Niese sings Susanna, paired with the Figaro of John Relyea. |
The World's Largest Disco |  Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo
28 Nov 2009 (annual)
It's not unusual to see a range of celebrities strutting their stuff at Buffalo Convention Center during the annual World's Largest Disco, which raises money for cancer charities. |
Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting |  Rockefeller Center, New York City
2 Dec 2009 (annual)
The spectacular annual Rockefeller Center Tree lighting ceremony in Manhattan signals the start of the Christmas season in New York City. The Christmas tree glitters with more than 25,000 multicoloured bulbs. |
Hamlet |  Broadhurst Theatre, New York City
12 Sep - 6 Dec 2009; not Mon
Jude Law returns to Broadway in Michael Grandage's acclaimed Donmar-in-the-West-End production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It comes to the Broadhurst Theatre direct from London's West End, via Elsinore in Denmark. |
Vienna Boys' Choir in Concert |  Carnegie Hall, New York City
6 Dec 2009 (annual)
Each year the venerable Carnegie Hall hosts one of the oldest and most renowned musical institutions in the world, the Vienna Boys' Choir. Their annual concert is one of the highlights in a city known for taking Christmas very seriously indeed. |
Execution |  Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York City
15 Nov 2008 - 13 Dec 2009; not Mon or Sun
In finished pieces of art the artistic process is often hidden. With more than 60 images, Execution, at New York's Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology explores the visual thinking, from conceptualization to creation, of 41 FIT faculty artists. |
Albany Winter Festival |  Albany
19 Dec 2009 (annual)
Jugglers, musicians and pony rides await visitors to Albany Winter Festival, celebrated all over downtown Albany. The festival begins at the State Room on Eagle Street with the children's Jingle Jog, ending with fireworks on the lawn of the Capitol. |
Winter Solstice Concerts at St John the Divine |  Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
17 - 19 Dec 2009 (annual)
In celebration of the winter solstice - the shortest day and longest night of the year - the Cathedral of St John the Divine hosts special concerts. The concert is made up of fantastical effects which take the audience on a symbolic journey through the longest night of the year. |
Santaland at Macy's |  Macy's New York, New York City
27 Nov - 24 Dec 2009 (annual)
Macy's New York department store at Herald Square hosts its annual Christmas extravaganza. A huge area of the eighth floor is bedecked in twinkling lights, sparkling stars and outsized lollipops to create Santaland at Macy's. |
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