It’s a two-day process - they go through multiple cuts. … We are all still working towards one similar - the same goal - and I think that’s just really powerful and special to see.īeing in a room and learning the show with 84 women (two casts of 42 36 onstage and six swings) is pretty amazing if you ask me. I believe the Rockettes are about strength and glamour and just the idea that women support women, and we have to get through it together - it’s not about one single person, it’s about collaborating and coming together to create something special. I would have to say my favorite costume is “Snow” so I’m so happy that it’s back - there are six different designs and six different colors in the snow costume which kind of represents the idea that every Rockette is an individual and then we come on stage to create this picture of cohesiveness that is exactly what the Rockettes are about. I just think that the audience is really going to love it this year. And we have a new storyline which I think is really cute and warms the heart and is meaningful to us as Rockettes onstage. … It’s actually an added number so the Rockettes are now in 9 numbers as opposed to 8 numbers in the past - so a lot more dancing for us on the stage. We have snow coming back to the show! It left our show in 2017 … and now it’s back we are really excited about that.
What’s new this year at the Christmas Spectacular? We caught up with Heather Langham to talk about this year’s Christmas Spectacular, what it’s like to be a Radio City Rockette and what she loves about the East End. When she can catch her breath, she says she can’t wait to get back out east. With the season kick-off, she is working six days a week and performing up to 12 shows a week. “I’m so happy that I’m doing the Christmas show and I love being a part of the Christmas Spectacular but what I do miss is being out there in the fall for all the apple picking and whatnot,” she says, wistfully.Īfter considering retirement last year, she is back and excited to be dancing on stage again at the iconic Radio City Musical Hall. She and Nick set up a gym in their garage and a dance studio in the basement which she says was “a great escape.” Langham also got to “experience the change of seasons,” something she missed growing up in the desert. When the Christmas Spectacular was cancelled last season due to COVID, it meant living out east for most of the year. In 2019, they bought a place in Southampton. The couple would stay at Hamptons Green (now The Roundtree) in Amagansett and after that first summer together here, they began renting a house. She first came out east with Nick in 2016. Langham says, “It’s been a fun journey,” adding, “I wouldn’t trade anything for the path that I took to get here, because that actually in turn allowed me to meet my husband (Nick) seven years ago.” (They met at Barry’s Boot Camp in Tribeca.) Langham’s mom owned a dance studio and she recalls the family tradition that prompted her dream: “We watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade every Thanksgiving and I would see the Rockettes dancing and at the time I was 13 and I was already 5’ 8” - and you have to be 5’ 6” to 5’ 10 ½” to be a Rockette - so I knew at a young age that it was a dream that I could work towards and make happen.”
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Growing up in Arizona, the seed to become a professional dancer was planted early. “I remember shaking and just being in shock and obviously crying … I was overwhelmed with emotion.” She started auditioning when she was 19 years old and at age 29, she got the call - she would indeed be a member of the longest running precision dance company in America. Currently in her 12th season as a world-famous Radio City Rockette, she says the path to landing the job “took a little longer than some.” Six auditions over 10 years, to be exact. Heather Langham is literally living her dream.
But a real, live (and kicking) Radio City Rockette? Yes, we have one in our midst (well, when she’s not rehearsing and performing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which opened on November 5). We hear a lot about celebrities in the Hamptons.
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