FILE - Radio City Rockettes perform during the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, Dec. 13, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE - A dancer applies makeup before an audition for the Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, April 22, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE — Rockettes Louise Thompson of Long Beach, Calif., from left, Judy Little of Camden, N.J., and Joyce Hector of West Orange, N.J., are fitted for costumes for a new show in the Radio City Music Hall's costuming department, April 5, 1966, in New York. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano, File)
FILE - Rockettes rehearse for the 2023 Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, at St. Paul the Apostle Church, Oct. 19, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
FILE — Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Corliss Fyfe, Eleanor Dunne, Ginnie Volmer and Pat White, rehearse on June 13, 1951, in New York. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi, File)
FILE - Dancers perform during auditions to become Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, on April 3, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
FILE — Rockettes Lynda Farmer, left, and Penny Singleton, pose like they're ready to toss picket signs out the window of the American Guild of Variety Artists headquarters, at the Hotel Warwick, Oct. 12, 1967, in New York, following a general settlement of a contract dispute between Radio City Music Hall and the Rockettes and other performers. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)
FILE - Rockettes line up for their first rehearsal as they prepare to go back onstage after a 27-day strike and under a new agreement, at Radio City Music Hall, Oct. 13, 1967, in New York. (AP Photo/Anthony Camerano, File)
The Rockettes rehearse the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," a number in which the costumed dancers march in military-like precision and then famously collapse like dominoes, in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, in New York, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
FILE - Rockettes laugh as they hold Azzuri, the camel that along with other animals arrive for the first day of rehearsals for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, Nov. 7, 2006, in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)
FILE - Radio City Rockettes perform the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers dance during the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE - The 36 Rockettes go through a dance number as they rehearse for their Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall in New York in December 1963. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi, File)
FILE - Radio City Rockettes perform during the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, on Dec. 13, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
FILE- The Radio City Rockettes perform in the annual "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," marking its 75th year in New York, Nov. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
FILE- The Radio City Rockettes walk offstage as they take a break from rehearsal for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Oct. 29, 2008, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The iconic Radio City Rockettes are turning 100.
The famed dance troupe and high-kicking staple of the New York City holiday season is marking a century of wowing crowds as its annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall opens this week.
The show dates to 1933 but the troupe itself traces its roots to the founding of the “Missouri Rockets” in St. Louis in 1925.
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