MSG Entertainment
It has been two weeks since Valentine’s Day, so I guess it is time to get ready for Christmas. At least in the T.V. world.
Yesterday, Lifetime announced three of their holiday movies, and today Hallmark Channel did the same.
For the first time in Hallmark Channel’s history, they are doing a movie with the Rockettes, who are synonymous with Christmas in NYC. The hick-kicking dancers will be joined by Ann-Margaret, Eve Plumb, Ginna Claire Mason, and Derek Klena.
The story is set in 1958 when a Philadelphia heiress named Maggie (Mason) puts her high-society wedding plans, to a man she doesn’t love, on hold in order to sneak up to New York City and make her secret dream come true: dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. While her family thinks she’s staying in New York City with an “approved” friend from boarding school, Maggie is living a completely different life than she’s ever known. She falls in love with New York and dancing with the Rockettes. Maggie soon feels caught between two worlds, made even more complicated by her chance encounter with young U.S. Navy photographer John (Klena). Will Maggie find the courage to tell her family?
According to that description, A Holiday Spectacular will live up to its name.
I just have one request for next year. Can we wait until after July Fourth to talk about Christmas? I love the holiday, but I need a little more of a break from it. Because mentioning this early is making me turn into an Ebeneezer Scrooge. Bah humbug.
