Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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I believe that MSG is just the owner of the operating lease for Radio City Music Hall. Any decisions on the future of the property itself if MSG defaults or negotiates out of the lease would be left up to the ownership of Rockefeller Center.
I hope this isnt true either, however, with this virus thing closing so many businesses for so long, anything is possible. This is a big nut on the MSG books, and now with them losing perhaps the biggest money maker they have, the Christmas Show, more money can be made with all the things listed above. My wife, who works on the Christmas Show said it was a huge mistake they cancelled it so early.
This was posted by Pantopticon on September 28, 2020 at 4:04 pm on the photo page but it deserves to be here:
‘Don’t take this for certain but, the theater industry pipeline has this theater, regardless of landmark status as changing. Interior conversion to mini mall, restaurants, apartments, and office space. Hopefully not.
No one wants to see another one bite the dust.'
Holmes did so poorly it ended Thanksgiving films at the Hall forever. It was pulled mid November and the Christmas show with Scrooge was rushed in causing the entire western world to rush Christmas when before the holiday season always started in December. A vestige of this remains as the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center is still in December.
Radio City Music Hall was closed on the day of the Funeral of JFK. I remember that weekend.
For its 50th anniversary at RCMH Sunflower is getting some attention. I must be the last one alive who went to this show. I remember all the middle aged ladies on line early in the morning just like you see in the older pictures of lines outside the Music Hall. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even notice the film was in Italian and dubbed into English.
It closed once in the mid 60s for cleaning and a new paint job. I believe it was for several days.
Today marks the 61st anniversary of the opening of one of the Music Hall’s most iconic film presentations. Ad displayed here
https://deadline.com/2020/08/rockettes-annual-christmas-show-at-nycs-radio-city-music-hall-canceled-by-covid-19-1203003416/
Interesting. I wonder, from 1933 to 1979, did RCMH never close, not even one day? Anyone know?
For the first time since 1933 the xmas spectacular will be canceled.
As per CC’s ad Harry and Walter Go to New York was the first non exclusive NY area film for the Music Hall. When I mentioned this to a woman in the box office when I worked there before the film had opened she said to me ‘that’s it, it’s over.’
A friend who has worked for years as an usher in Broadway theaters is saying it could be March.
“Broadway Will Remain Closed Through the Rest of the Year,” according to an article in today’s New York Times. Surely this will include Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon, and other theatres that are now concert venues, as well as all indoor cinemas in NYC and surrounding areas. NYT article can be read here
Backstage at the Music Hall — photo essay with 100 images.
https://peterclarkinc.blogspot.com/2020/06/peter-clark-and-radio-city-music-hall.html
What a terrible frightening photo CC. I’m not complaining that you put it up. It’s just very upsetting and depressing. Never in a million years did I think I’d feel this way.
The Broadway League announced today that they do not expect to be back on stage before January. If so, and RADIO CITY follows that, sadly, there will be no Xmas show this year, for the first time.
Starting to look like there’ll be no Christmas Spectacular this year, nor anything before that, according to New York Times article displayed here
The “Appendix” with list of films has some titles missing and also simply groups them by year, without specific opening dates. Author is not entirely to blame, since he received little in the way of cooperation from RCMH management.
I have a very interesting book I was able to get on amazon “The Radio City Music Hall” by Charles Francisco. It was from 1979. It has a history of the property, the ideas for the hall, the building of the hall etc. Also, it has a list of every movie that played there and when. The book is out of print but I found a few places that still have a few new ones in stock. I just wish that it had the story behind the Wurlitzer organ. I know it myself and it is a very interesting one. I hope you can get a copy.
Where can I find a complete list of films & dates of films which played at the Music Hall ?
Sounds like Leonidoff and Markert were feeling no pain when they came up with this one.
According to a review in the May 27th, 1964 issue of Variety: “The climax of stage show is a spectacular in which electrical and scenic effects go crazy, for a magnificent result even for the Hall. Setting has more than 5,000 flashing electrical stars strung on garlands that extend up to 300 feet in length. Soprano Ann Gardner sings while depicted as wearing a crown of a thousand stars.”
CC just posted the opening day ad of 64’s The Chalk Garden. This is the last stage show I’ve seen featuring the Serenade to the Stars spectacle. Maybe there was one after it? I have never seen pictures of it nor do I know what it involved or what the music was. If anybody saw it perhaps you could give us a description? I think somebody once wrote it involved a lot of lights which often enough failed. A cause of amusement for the ushers who would place bets on what would happen at performances.
Radio City is NOT included in that announcement. Although they may eventually do the same, at this point, August shows are still on. 2 July concerts are still on also…..again….at this point.