Sting and Renée Fleming Among Thanksgiving Day Parade Performers — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

You’ve seen them on stage and on television, singing and dancing. Now you can see them ride in slow-moving vehicles, waving, in the vicinity of giant Spider-Man and Thomas the Tank Engine balloons. Macy’s has announced the celebrity roster for the 88th annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, on Nov. 27, and it’s an eclectic bunch. Along with the opera star Renée Fleming, the Broadway singer Idina Menzel, Muppets from Sesame Street, acrobats from Cirque du Soleil and the television chef Sandra Lee, there will be a contingent of rock stars of various stripes, including Sting, Nick Jonas, Kiss and the Vamps.

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