Comments about Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY

Bill Huelbig on June 6, 2011 at 5:07 am

Vito, Sonny, … if your next two posts are labeled Michael and Fredo, someone is pulling a prank on you :)

Bill Huelbig on June 6, 2011 at 4:56 am

Vito: the new site gives us the ability to remove our own posts. Maybe this explains the 5 missing posts. Tinseltoes may have deleted them himself.

I wonder where they got Sonny from? The name I first entered as my username back in 2003, BillHuelbig, also comes up in every one of my posts now.

Vito on June 6, 2011 at 3:14 am

Also my name is Vito why is the name sonny coming up as well.I changed notheing after the new site pages came up. I am an old man is my mind playing tricks or are you all experencing this as well :)

Vito on June 6, 2011 at 3:10 am

I received 6 e-mail notifications over the course of 30 mins for RCMH however when I clicked on the site page the only update was Tinseltoes Christmas show post from yesterday. Anyone else experience this and where are the new posts I recieved notification about?

Also any news on Cirque du Soleil

Gooper on April 16, 2011 at 6:37 pm

In 1968 I saw WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT, plus full stage show, Mighty Wurlitzer and the Rockettes. Trailer was for HOT MILLIONS, and I was impressed that trailer was specially produced for RCMH. None of the little program lamps on the back of each seat were in working order, and everything seemed to be spray-painted in pinkish-red. Not a good time for the Hall, but I was staggered by it nevertheless – naturally.

However, I revisited Radio City a few weeks ago, and to put it simply, I almost got down on my knees. Wonderful beyond words. On the tour you get to meet a Rockette, too. Not a bad gimmick, and the tour was Grade-A – very intelligent and in-depth. The under-stage mechanism is jaw-dropping. (And I used to help showgirls into the organ lift at Seattle’s Music Hall too – a broom closet in comparison!)

Radio City’s the summit, and those who run it know what they have. We can rest easy.

moviebuff82 on April 16, 2011 at 10:46 am

Six screenings of a movie starting at 10 am plus 5 stage shows required a lot of work for the crew at RCMH back in the 1930’s.

Denpiano on April 16, 2011 at 4:19 am

sorry AGR-shows you where my lifes gone to-instead of working in the HALL i’m making useless comments on this page&others like it,sorry if i’m boring you people!anyhow ,enjoy cinema treasures,its a great site

AGRoura on April 15, 2011 at 5:24 am

Ed, I did check off the “notify me…” Denpiano, I want to be notified instead of checkin out the pages. The names of theaters with new comments are not kept on the home page all day, so sometimes I miss the comments for days.

Denpiano on April 15, 2011 at 4:41 am

why not just check out this comment page at your leisure?check out seats,I never wait for notify me messages,truthfully,they were loading up my inbox& were not responses to my comments anyway

Ed Solero on April 13, 2011 at 4:23 pm

I’ve been re-registering to a number of theaters and notifications seem to be working fine for me on those pages. I know this seems like a silly question, but you were sure to check off the “notify me…” box below, right? I’m sure you did, just want to make sure!

AGRoura on April 13, 2011 at 4:17 pm

Even though I re-registered I am still not being notified of new comments on this or other theaters pages, so I have to check once in a while to see which theaters have new comments. I sent an email to CT some days ago and have not received a response or have the problem fixed. Maybe it is another computer glitch, let’s hope it is fixed soon.

CSWalczak on April 12, 2011 at 3:35 pm

hdtv267: AGR is not re-registering as a member of CT, but making a brief comment so as to get notified when someone posts a comment on this RCMH page. There was some sort of computer glitch some months ago that removed automatic notifications of new comments on theater pages to CT members that had been receiving them previously. Right now, there apparently is no other way to get notified when someone posts to a theater page that is of interest to you.

Denpiano on April 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm

vito-they used to stick speakers in front of the organ console niches during rock concerts&many times cut our cablesin the process
then it was 2weeks of re-wiring, what a joy,I guess God gave me a vacation with my stroke,don’t have to worry about those dumb things anymore!!feel sorry for my old boss!

AGRoura on April 12, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Re-registering.

Vito on April 12, 2011 at 11:41 am

Thanks ED I shuda guessed that :)
Sure are ugly

Ed Solero on April 12, 2011 at 9:31 am

Those are speaker cabinets, vito. Similar to what you’d see at a live concert.

Vito on April 12, 2011 at 9:12 am

What are those five hidious black things hanging form the ceiling in two of those wonderful pictures?

Denpiano on April 12, 2011 at 8:07 am

ed-thanks for those great pictures!oh what memories!!

NewYorker64 on April 11, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Absolutely stunning. Never fails to thrill.

Ed Solero on April 11, 2011 at 8:18 pm

Last Easter I took my daughter to see a live show here, featuring some of her favorite characters from Nick TV. Here are a couple of shots I grabbed that capture the house beautifully bathed in different color lights:

Classic Gold Proscenium

Balconies in honey

Proscenium in blue

This place is magical, every time I visit.

Denpiano on April 7, 2011 at 4:01 am

thanks for those specs sheets new yorker64,real interesting!!

NewYorker64 on April 4, 2011 at 9:35 am

While we’re talking technology, see the links below for two articles (in PDF format) regarding the original technical specs of the Music Hall and also the restoration. Both of these articles are out of print and unavailable for purchase, so copyrights are not being violated.

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Ed Solero on April 4, 2011 at 9:06 am

Regarding Bob Endres' post on the discussions and aborted plans to install IMAX at the Music Hall… I, for one, would love to see an IMAX presentation here! I wonder if technology will ever advance to the point where an unobtrusive mechanism for quickly deploying and then stowing the huge IMAX screen between stage shows might be feasible. It would do this heart good to see the return of cinematic engagements at the Hall – even if on a semi-regular basis. Alas, I think it would take an “event” attraction such as an IMAX presentation to fill enough of the Hall’s 5940 seats and make the enterprise financially worthwhile. Seems to me that a big part of such a program would involve negotiating exclusive rights to a particular engagement – at least in Manhattan – which would probably be nearly impossible to acheive with the big box cinema chains in play.

Ed Solero on April 4, 2011 at 8:57 am

Hey LuisV… Couldn’t agree more. Something like 2800 tickets are still avaliable on StubHub for the two shows scheduled for this weekend. For the 2nd show alone, on Sunday, there are over 1600 seats available – that’s approximately 27% of the house!

Luis Vazquez on April 4, 2011 at 8:31 am

I not that worried about the Sheen “fans” damaging the theater after his “performance” mainly because they must have incredibly low expectations. Frankly, I think anyone who bought a ticket to this fiasco and a bonafide idiot himself. I AM happy that ticket scalpers are the ones who will lose big on this debacle. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

Radio City Music Hall

1260 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10020

1260 6th Avenue,
New York, NY 10020