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Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular exploits camels, sheep, and donkeys in its live Nativity scenes, even though it’s highly stressful and confusing to animals to be hauled from city to city in cramped trucks, placed in unfamiliar settings, stored backstage like props, and subjected to loud sounds and disorienting lights.
Animals used in Nativity displays, like the one in Christmas Spectacular, are usually rented from seedy exhibitors who put profits over the animals’ welfare. When they aren’t being forced to perform or kept in a backroom for months on end, animals used in this show are kept at an unaccredited facility that leases animals for cruel circus acts.
This is how animals are typically kept at Radio City Music Hall.
All animals can experience fear, pain, and stress, just as we can, and they should never be put in harm’s way for any show. Christmas Spectacular already features immensely talented human performers, and reinventing the show to dazzle audiences without exploiting animals would be truly aligned with the Christmas spirit.
Please join PETA and Alec Baldwin in urging Radio City Music Hall not to use live animals in future shows.