Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargePrep for this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC had already been basting for months when the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to cook up a new way to pull it off.“We have to plan this thing about 18 months out, because we do things like select the bands, we design and build our floats, our balloons and everything,” said executive producer Susan Tercero. “As you can imagine, when we got to March of this past year, we’d already had a parade plan.”Many of those ingredients still remain: Musical performances, balloons, floats and a Santa Claus finale.
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