Home Alone / The March Sisters At Christmas
Mariah Carey was the mother of all divas Tuesday as she kept her fans waiting in the freezing rain in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The prima donna, known for her tardiness, finally arrived three hours late, but the audience had already left, and NBC execs angrily told her to go home.
Carey had a 7 p.m. call time to pretape "All I Want for Christmas Is You" for the 82nd annual "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" tree-lighting show airing Wednesday night.
"She was going to be backed by an adorable troupe of child dancers clad head to toe in snow-white winter-wear," a source told The Post's Kirsten Fleming.
Carey, if she shows up, is now set to perform the song live at 8 p.m., opening the national broadcast for Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Cyndi Lauper, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, Darius Rucker and the Radio City Rockettes.
Seth MacFarlane and Sara Bareilles pretaped Tuesday as planned with their version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
To entertain the throngs of Carey fans shivering in the drizzle on the Rockefeller ice rink-turned-stage, MacFarlane came back later alone to sing Dean Martin's "A Marshmallow World."
At about 10:15 p.m., word spread that Carey was "walking over now," a well-placed source reports. In fact, the diva of all divas was sitting pretty in her warm SUV parked curbside at 30 Rock, contemplating the precipitation.
TMZ reports the singer was on her cellphone with her lawyer, discussing her divorce from Nick Cannon.
Carey's publicist Cindi Berger told me, "I don't comment on Mariah's personal life." Carey was said to be feeling terrible about disappointing her fans.
The diva had also been scheduled for a 9 p.m. taped promo that would have featured her riding in a horse and carriage along Fifth Avenue, for which NBC secured a city permit to close traffic lanes.
By 10:30 p.m., most fans, who had been issued free tickets to support the 20th anniversary of the release of Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," had trudged home and the production crew had packed up.
After the network pulled the plug, the singer made frantic cellphone calls begging NBC to "bring the audience back."
NBC did not return calls for comment.
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