The world famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature several current Broadway Musicals and stars.

The Macy’s Day Parade which is televised on NBC beginning at 9AM on Thanksgiving Day (November 22^nd) will feature cast members from Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins and Spring Awakenings. According to a Macy’s spokesperson cast members from Mary Poppins will sing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and the cast from Legally Blonde will be performing “What You Want”. 

 Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, two of the stars from the hit musical Spring Awakening’s, will be singing “Give My Regards to Broadway” as they stand on top of the M&M’s Chocolate Candies on Broadway Float. This particular float will be a theatre inspired and will feature the M&M characters taking on the roles of characters from famous Broadway productions. The Green M&M will be Elphba from Wicked, the Orange and Yellow M&M’s star in A Chorus Line, Blue will be the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Red is King Arthur from Spamalot. 

The parade which will be celebrating its 81^st year will start at 77^th Street and Central Park West and then make its way down Broadway through Times Square. The parade ends at Herald Square- 7^th Ave and 34^th St.

The Spring Awakenings star Jonathan Groff who plays Mechior in the Tony Award winning musical has been cast in the upcoming FX television series “Pretty Handsome”. He has been out of the show since October 27^th and will be shooting the pilot for the series until November 17. He is expected to return to the show upon completion of the pilot.

The FX series also will star Joseph Fiennes and is written by “Nip/Tuck” writers Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, who also direct. An air date has not been set yet for the pilot.