Christmas Spectacular Starring
The Radio City Rockettes

For over twenty years, batwin + robin has created a variety of 3D video scene projections for musical numbers that have become groundbreaking staples of the world famous Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. b + r has created media for a ninety-foot LED wall, a flying fifty-foot 3D LED wall and has also designed architectural scale projections mapped to the iconic proscenium arch and art deco interior of Radio City. This projection-mapped imagery spans 180 feet across the theater’s arches and is synchronized with the onstage LED walls, extending the onstage scenery into the theater and surrounding audiences in environments like Santa’s North Pole workshop.

In the 2017 production of the Christmas Spectacular, b + r was responsible for fully re-creating and enhancing video content on both the LED wall and the proscenium arches to utilize a new, advanced video projection system. This work included updates to fan favorite numbers such as “Sleigh Ride,” “New York at Christmas,” the North Pole scene, “Rag Dolls,” and “Living Nativity.”

Most recently, working with director Julie Branam, b + r designed and produced media for a brand-new Overture inspired by the art deco beauty of Radio City. The Overture is a true immersive, visual journey – starting with the beautiful rays of a sunrise mapped to Radio City’s proscenium that builds to a beautiful art deco Christmas lattice-work with shifting architectural tiles, then a light-filled stained glass cathedral, a serene winter evening sky, a dazzling Christmas-tree interior filled with shining ornaments, and finally a sparkling art deco winter wonderland.   

Select photos: MSG Entertainment