Rockettes encouraged to ‘tolerate intolerance’ in inauguration performance

In a transcript from a private meeting with the Rockettes and Madison Square Garden executive chairman and Cablevision CEO James Dolan, Marie Claire reveals that Dolan encouraged the Rockettes to “tolerate” Trump supporters, some of whom belong to the sexist and white nationalist alt-right movement ― seemingly no matter what. Acording to the Marie Claire…

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Rockettes in Trump inauguration performance kerfuffle

Who would be in charge of securing acts for President-elect Trump’s inauguration! After yesterday’s reassuring announcement that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform a whole new kerfuffle has broken out over another set of artist slated to perform – the Radio City Rockettes! Following an announcement Thursday that the Rockettes would perform, Variety reported that…

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Being a Rockette

I shudder at the dreams of the young today as they aspire to be great “stars” like the Kardashians or a singer whose main emphasis is on amassing scandals, friends with benefits and divorce millions. In our day countless high school girls (sorry, that is what they were then) dreamed of packing a suitcase, getting…

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