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4 unusual facts about The Rockettes


Christmas in Los Angeles

The song was used for several years in the 1980s as a specialty number during The Rockettes Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Eric Schmertz

When The Rockettes went on strike at Radio City Music Hall in 1967, Schmertz helped negotiate a deal that brought the dancers pay increases of 15%.

Francesco del Cossa

Apparently a sign of springtime's prolific blossoming, the crowded rows of babies mass like a phalanx of infantile Rockettes.

Rockettes

The Rockettes, a New York dance company which are famous for their kickline and eye high kicks



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Deborah Yates

Yates stayed with the Rockettes for 4 years before making her Broadway debut as a swing in the 1997 revue show Dream also starring Lesley Ann Warren.