Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Charade 2002
It’s Thanksgiving morning, 2002, and the house is suffused with heavenly aromas, the family is all here, a fire crackles in the fireplace, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is on in the background. Two of my daughter’s friends are in the parade, so we are watching the whole thing (they’re supposed to be right behind the Charlie Brown balloon). We’re now 30 minutes into the parade, and so far we’ve seen about 30 seconds of the parade, 10 minutes of yapping hosts (plugging their respective NBC shows), and 20 minutes of (for some reason) Broadway stage production numbers performed on the street (so far we’ve seen selections from Oklahoma, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and The Producers).
The entire thing is so inexplicable that it’s making my head hurt. Take, for instance, the selection from The Producers. The number consisted of some guy singing about wanting to be a producer, while surrounded
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