- All right, welcome back.
I'm hanging with Darren Criss and Paula Patton y'all.
Give it up. (audience applauds)
(audience cheers)
- So the Christmas season is officially here.
Y'all stoked?
Do you get super excited?
- Yes.
- I do too.
Do you decorate your house, like crazy?
What? (Paula laughs)
- I'm going to say like, not crazy.
I think the sensible enough amount,
I think we do.
Why, what does that mean? - [Kelly] Oh yeah, me too.
Do you go crazy?
- Ah, yeah.
Yeah, I go crazy.
- [Darren] Define crazy?
- We have so many gingerbread houses we make,
I have a whole entire, not village, like city
that goes up into,
like its lit. - [Darren] Gingerbread city?
- No, that's separate.
There's a whole Christmas village.
Like there's, like Charles Dickens kind of like
those like ones that light up, you know,
in like the stores. - [Darren] Yeah, sure.
- It looks like a department store
when you walk to my house. - So crazy, yes.
So that's crazy. - [Kelly] Yeah.
Trees, everything.
Christmas is my favorite season.
Judge me all you want. - No, is this crazy?
- But tomorrow y'all,
it truly kicks off with NBC's live coverage
of Christmas In Rockefeller Center at 8/7 central.
Let's light that tree y'all, it's so exciting.
And if you live in the tri-state area
or certain select cities,
you get an extra helping of Christmas joy.
You're welcome.
That's because coverage starts one hour earlier
on NBC 4 New York.
And our friends at NBC 4 New York
invited me and my musical director, Jason Halbert
to choose the local school choir
who will perform on the broadcast.
So tell us all about the selections, Jason.
- The competition was open to a variety of choirs
in the tri-state area.
57 choirs and glee clubs entered the competition.
And it was narrowed down to three.
NBC 4 New York invited us to choose the winning choir,
which we were excited about. - Yeah.
Every single one of us were part of choirs growing up.
And we just knew,
we just know what a great opportunity this is.
So we really took it seriously
and really tough choice 'cause they were all great.
But we chose the choir at PS 103 from The Bronx.
It was incredible.
- [Kelly] Yeah. (audience applauds)
They were all incredible.
Let's see their audition tape though.
(Christmas music)
(audience applauds)
They're adorable.
Here's the cool thing y'all.
The choir at PS 103 still doesn't know they've won,
which I'm very excited about.
Do y'all wanna help me share the news?
- Yes, yes please. - Okay.
If you would have said no,
it would have been like your screen.
- Yeah, no, I'm good. (Kelly and Paula laugh)
- We have NBC 4 New York's
Natalie Pasquarella
in The Bronx at PS 103 right now.
So Natalie, it's good to see you again.
Hi. (audience applauds)
I have Darren Criss and Paula Patton with me,
say hi.
- Hey Paula, hey Darren, how's it going?
- Good. How are you? - Great.
- So do you have with you. - Great to join you,
here in The Bronx.
I have Mr. Antoine Dolberry
and the PS 103 ensemble stars,
say hi everybody to Kelly Clarkson.
- Yes! Hey guys! (audience applauds)
Looking good.
- They are so excited to join you here today, Kelly.
Can you guys even believe you're here?
Give another round of applause.
(choir members applaud)
And they have been so, so busy
performing and practicing their Christmas songs.
Because of course it's the Christmas season
and we're all thrilled about that.
But it's been a tough year, you know,
this is actually the first year as we bring in Antoine
that they've been able,
you've all been able to come together
and perform together as one,
they actually were doing it virtually.
And so we know this has been a tough year
and this has been so special to finally come together.
What has it meant to you all this past year.
- It's really been about togetherness.
Being on zoom all year and seeing them struggle
through getting up in the morning,
just to get out of their bed and going to the desk,
next to the bed,
just to have school for six, seven hours.
It's been a struggle.
So we're really excited to be back here,
to be singing together again, right guys.
- [Group] Yes..
It's gonna be awesome.
So we just love it.
We're really excited and really grateful
for this opportunity.
- I got to hear what great singers they were.
And we're going to bring in Nicoy
and Nicoy you told me how much you love to sing.
What does this mean to you?
What has it been like finally getting together
with your classmates and your choir mates.
- It's been very great.
And everybody gets to gather around,
we get to sing together and it's beautiful.
Like harmony gathers around. - Yeah.
- Oh my gosh, Nicoy, you're killing me.
I was like, oh my gosh,
I wish I could hug you right now.
We do have some exciting news to share y'all.
We have reviewed all the audition tapes
and I am pleased to announce PS 103 is the winner.
(crowd cheers and applauds) - Yeah, woo.
- You guys are going to Rockefeller Center.
Look at that!
(crowd cheers)
And that's not all,
we're also giving your choir $5,000
to help keep music alive in your school.
(crowd cheers)
And I just, I wanted to tell Antoine this too,
actually, I'm going to add five grand to that as well,
because I came from a choir just like this.
And that is what started my path
to where I came to today.
So I'm going to add to that.
So y'all got 10,000 total coming to y'all
to help with the arts, all right.
(crowd cheers) - Whoa.
- Isn't everything amazing?
They're so excited.
- We're so grateful.
- Well, a lot of us in this crew here,
literally started out in a choir just like that.
So we are all so proud of you.
I hope you have so much fun.
It's such a beautiful moment when the tree,
I've been there, it's a beautiful moment.
It's going to be so exciting.
Y'all are going to kill it.
Thank you so much, Natalie.
It's lovely to see you again. - Congratulations.
- [Kelly] And Mr. Dolberry and all of his
incredibly talented students,
y'all gonna have so much fun.
And to the owl.
Purr, purr, purr.
Christmas in Rockefeller center
is live tomorrow night on NBC at 8/7 central,
don't miss it y'all.
And if you live in the tri-state area
or certain select cities,
coverage starts in seven on NBC 4 New York,
where you can see this choir perform.
Check your local listings y'all.
And right after the lighting
you'll want to stay tuned to NBC because
well, we're bringing you
our huge holiday spectacular Kelly Clarkson presents,
When Christmas Comes Around.
We're so excited.
We hope you love it.
We have so many amazing friends joining us,
including Amy Poehler, Ariana Grande, Leslie Odom Jr,
Melissa McCarthy, Brett Eldredge, and Jay Leno.