Radio City Christmas Spectacular

When I was a kid, I always wanted to see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Every year, in fact, when I was growing up, I would beg my parents to take me to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. I would beg them from Christmas through July. I wasn't really aware of time of year at that point, I just knew that I wanted to go.
I must have seen some movie with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in it. I can't remember, but I think it was Annie. I know there was a Christmas Spectacular Radio City show, or something like it in that movie. I remember seeing all of the women dancing in a chorus line, the lights glowing, the costumes sparkling, and the hall crowded with applauding people. I couldn't think of anything I wanted to see more. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular appealed to my childish desire for spectacle.
Of course, try as they might, my parents could not explain to me why we couldn't see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. I didn't understand that Vermont was nowhere near New York City. I simply knew that we went on vacation every year. Why couldn't we go on vacation to New York if it was in New York? I was truly perplexed. To be honest, I was probably a pain in the neck. Nevertheless, eventually my persistence paid off.
I was secretly hoping that one year, around Christmas time, my mom would announce that we were going to New York City to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular! As it turns out, that didn't happen. What did happen, however, was that we saw a local Holiday Spectacular showing in Vermont. It was Not the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, of course, but my parents were able to convince me that it was the same thing. I did not know any better, and I loved it. I had never seen anything like it!
I got to see many Christmas holidays in my childhood. Every year, we would do something special. We would go to the Nutcracker, or we would go caroling. It didn't matter. It was always different and it was always exciting. Nonetheless, that Radio City music Spectacular was one of the most exciting things that I have ever done. Nowadays, I understand that Radio City Christmas Spectaculars are kind of silly and cliché. Still, at the time they were the perfect celebration of Christmas.