in 1994, henry krieger and i were invited to write a new opening number for the radio city music hall christmas spectacular which continued in the new york production until this year … as the original lyric was very specific to new york and radio city, one of my main sources of income over the past few years has been rewriting it for different cities where the christmas spectacular has toured … this year they requested a generic lyric which would work anywhere, so that ride is over — fun though it was … last year around this time i was doing a cabaret show called belters we have heard on high and included this version of the song, incorporating some of the different lines i wrote for different cities …
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