Of New York City's many wonders, natural and otherwise, few can compare to those dazzlingly leggy dancers known as the Radio City Rockettes. So brava to director and choreographer Linda Habermann for putting them front and center throughout much of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a show so completely entertaining and so fast-paced that audience members are barely allowed a second to catch their collective breath.

These lovely ladies show off their particular kick-line skills in the very first number, the smile-inducing "Sleighride," and they're rarely off the stage for too long afterwards -- whether in a clever, tap-oriented arrangement of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," riding in a [...]