Radio City Music Hall

This guide to Radio City Music Hall opens on its opening night, December 27, 1932, when showman Samuel Roxy Rothafel unveiled the largest indoor theater ever built with a six-hour variety bill that ran until two in the morning. You'll hear how the evening played to a black-tie crowd and its patron John D. Rockefeller Jr., and how the venue's programming shifted within months toward first-run cinema. It also walks through designer Donald Deskey's Art Deco interior, from the grand foyer to the gold, concentric ceiling arches.