Radio City Music Hall
Art Deco concert hall and cinema palace, once the largest indoor theater ever built.
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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.
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