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Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, Victoria Justice, Joan Rivers, Kanye West et al. Set for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Joan Rivers
(© Tristan Fuge)
Joan Rivers
(© Tristan Fuge)

Theater veterans Betty Buckley, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Joan Rivers, along with the Broadway casts of the musicals American Idiot, Elf, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet will be among the participants in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, to be held on Thursday, November 25 beginning at 9am, and scheduled to end at Noon.

Additional stars will include India Arie, Big Time Rush, the Big Apple Circus, the cast and Muppets of Sesame Street, Miranda Cosgrove, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Gloriana, Michael Grimm, Arlo Guthrie, Keri Hilson, Eric Hutchinson, Juanes, Victoria Justice, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steamroller, Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih, Power Rangers Samurai, Melissa Rivers, Crystal Shawanda, Jessica Simpson, and Kanye West.

The parade will begin at 77th Street and Central Park West, and travel south to Columbus Circle, turn onto Central Park South before making a right turn to march down 7th Avenue to 42nd Street. The Parade will then turn east towards 6th Avenue where it will march down the Avenue of the Americas. At 34th Street, the Parade will make its final turn west marching in front of Macy’s Herald Square.

For more information, visit www.macys.com/parade.