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Which Broadway Shows Are Performing in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

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As you're prepping your Thanksgiving meal, why not throw in a dash of dance?

This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is stuffed (pun intended) with performances from four stellar Broadway shows, the Radio City Rockettes and students from three New York City dance institutions.

Tune in to NBC November 28 from 9 am to noon (in all time zones), or catch the rebroadcast at 2 pm (also in all time zones). Here's what's in store:

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The Secrets to Mary Ann Lamb's Long Career in Musical Theater

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A few years ago, Mary Ann Lamb got a phone call from Ann Reinking, who was choreographing a production of The Visit starring Chita Rivera. Lamb was thrilled when Reinking offered her the role of Young Claire without even asking for an audition. "And then she said, 'In the first act, you're going to play Chita Rivera when she's a 17-year-old virgin,'" Lamb says, "and I'm like, 'What am I gonna do? I'm like 50 years old!' I started panicking. My dream was to be in the room with Ann Reinking and Chita Rivera, but I was scared to death I was going to make a fool of myself."

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Broadway Star Carol Channing Has Died at 97

Carol Channing in the original 1964 production of Hello, Dolly! Photo by Eileen Darby, courtesy of DM Archives

The inimitable Carol Channing, best known for her role as the titular Hello, Dolly!, passed away today at 97.

Though she became a three-time Tony winner, Channing was born in Seattle, far from the Great White Way, in 1921. After growing up in San Francisco, she attended the famed Bennington College, studying dance and drama. She later told the university, "What Bennington allows you to do is develop the thing you're going to do anyway, over everybody's dead body." For Channing, that meant decades of fiery, comical performances, bursting with energy.

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This Triple-Threat Broadway Swing Keeps "Mean Girls" in Check

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When it comes to Broadway, Becca Petersen does it all. Not only is she a swing learning multiple roles for Mean Girls on Broadway as well as understudy for the principal roles of Cady Heron and Regina George, but she also plays an administrative role as the assistant dance captain. When she's not onstage dancing one of the 10 different tracks she covers, or acting out two of Broadway's most notorious mean ladies, she's in the audience, taking notes in order to clean choreography in the next rehearsal. "Once the show opens and the creative team leaves, the dance captains, stage managers and associates keep things running," Petersen says. "I help teach choreography to newcomers when there is turnover and make sure the dancing looks good from day to day."

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You Can See Broadway's "An American in Paris" in Movie Theaters TODAY!

Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope in An American in Paris (courtesy Trafalgar Releasing)

Couldn't make it to the Tony Award–winning Broadway revival of An American in Paris? Or DID make it to the show, but now miss it like ca-razy? Either way, we have fabulous news: Both today and Sunday, September 23, movie theaters across America are screening the gorgeous musical, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.

The broadcast performance, which was filmed in London's West End last year, features the show's original stars, former New York City Ballet principal Robert Fairchild and former Royal Ballet first artist Leanne Cope. It's pretty much impossible not to swoon for the show's beautiful dancing, not to mention the iconic Gershwin score.

Check out the trailer below, and click here to find a screening near you!

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SpongeBob SquarePants and Mean Girls Tie for Most Tony Nominations

The Tony nominations prove that a yellow sponge has a place on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus, Courtesy Boneau/Bryan-Brown.

It's Broadway awards season (hello Tony, Chita Rivera and Drama Desk Awards!), and this year, there's a lot for fans to sing and dance about. If you're a millennial, your heart is certainly happy with this morning's Tony announcement: SpongeBob SquarePants and Mean Girls scored the most nominations for a musical at 12 each. (The two-part play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child got 10.)

Mean Girls leads the pack with 12 Tony nominations. Photo by Joan Marcus, Courtesy Boneau/Bryan-Brown.


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"So You Think You Can Dance" Choreographer, Tyce Diorio, Gives Advice for Teaching Broadway Classes

Tyce Diorio teaching at Radix Dance Competition. Photo courtesy of Radix

"Be the kind of dancer who walks into the room and wears the choreographer out in the best way," Tyce Diorio says by phone, as he prepares to travel to the next city on the Radix convention tour. "Make them never want to let you go." It's a Pinterest-worthy statement he regularly makes to many students in cities across the country. He believes it'll make all the difference for aspiring artists because he's seen it in action in his own life. He's trained in nearly every genre of dance and has worked with dance industry giants, from Janet Jackson, to Twyla Tharp, to Kenny Ortega, to Debbie Allen. Since he was 15, he's been using his training and experience to teach dancers in styles as varied as Broadway and modern.

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What My Teacher Taught Me: Dani Spieler

Dani Spieler with Maria Briggs in costume for Cats

When new Cats swing Dani Spieler was dancing at Central Park Dance Academy as a kid, her teacher Maria Bai got her to realize how important ballet technique was to her future.

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