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Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Rockette Look All together now, girls—happy [high-kick] birthday! Radio City’s gangly Rockettes are celebrating their 85th anniversary—they don’t look a day over girlish 23, to us—and performances of their annual Christmas Spectacular will honor the performers’ “fashionable style, athleticism, independence, and unparalleled talent,” per the venue. That style has included some frisky, funny costumes over the years—including spangly, haute-fitness-y Bob Mackie in the 80s, a “Santa’s Circus” zebra outfit in the campy 50s, and Vincente Minnelli’s 1933 vision for the classic Rockette wooden soldier..