Radio City Cancels Rest of Rockettes' Christmas Shows as COVID Spike Shutters Live Performances in New York

Visitors to New York City can check out the famous outdoor Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center this holiday season, but they won’t be able to walk down the block and see Radio City Musical Hall’s “Christmas Spectacular.”

The stars of that show, the Rockettes, have been sidelined by an outbreak of Covid-19.

Just a week before Christmas Eve, “The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” announced it would end its 2021 season, which previously would have wrapped up on Jan. 2.

“We regret that we are unable to continue the ‘Christmas Spectacular’ this season due to increasing challenges from the pandemic,” the show said in a statement Friday.

It’s been a hard week for live performances. Show after show on Broadway has been canceled as variants of the coronavirus fuel a new surge in Covid cases in the city.