Hundreds of Rockette wannabes from across America showed up at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday to battle long odds for a shot to join the dance troupe.
Producers estimated that between two and four dancers from the wide-open audition of about 200 would join this summer cast of 40 — replacing the few 2015 performers who didn’t make the cut or chose not to return.
The dancers from last spring’s show had to re-audition for their jobs in a review separate from Tuesday’s open casting call.
They hope to be performing in the “Rockettes New York Spectacular,” which is scheduled to run from June 15 to Aug. 7.
There will be between eight and 10 shows a week, according to a production spokeswoman.
Some of Tuesday’s hopefuls lined up for hours outside Radio City, many wearing heavy winter clothes and shifting in place to stay warm.
The production is a reincarnation of last year’s “New York Spring Spectacular,” which was the Rockettes’ first non-Christmas show since 1997.
Rockettes producers used to have two regular runs, the traditional Christmas show and an Easter production.
But the Easter springtime show went dark for 17 years before it returned last year — and then was moved to summer this year.
The summer show will be a much smaller production than the annual Christmas production — which employees 80 dancers for 220 performances.
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