Radio City Music Hall

Vito, you’re correct. The Boxoffice article was probably posted before the actual opening date of “Kiss Me Kate”. There was a lot of publicity issued by MGM and the Hall bragging about the lack of an intermission. According to both Warren Jenkins and Ben Olevsky who were there at the time, the decision to run “Kate” in 2-D wasn’t made until the night before it opened, when it was screened and the determination was made that too many seats would be lost at the sides and the Mezzanines. Remember with a high-gain aluminized screen, necessary to preserve 3-D polarization, the light coming down at 19 degrees would be reflected off the screen at 19 degrees or so downward,which would cover the front of the orchestra and the center of the lower Mezzanines, but not work very well at the sides. (For what it’s worth, the current digital 3-D that uses high gain screens tends to have the same problem, although most multiplexes don’t have the extreme projection angle the Hall does.)

The Hall does do 3-D for the opening film effect in the Christmas Show, but that’s from a full width screen with two 70mm projectors equipped with 7 K. lamps, and it’s only for a relatively short clip not a whole feature.

In a sense, the Hall’s decision to show “Kate” in 2-D put a nail in the coffin of 3-D presentation in the ‘50’s, since exhibitors figured if the Hall felt it wasn’t necessary why go to the bother of running it. (“Kate” did appear in 3-D in subsequent NYC runs, and has been seen in recent years at the Film Forum 3-D extravagances.)

Too bad Cinerama didn’t play at this theater, since the screen was a bit smaller than wider.

I am surprised there have not been any comments on Cirque du Soleil I wondered if anyone has seen it and if of our RCMH insiders have any tid bits about the backstage story

@Tinseltoes We’re also going to add the ability to edit your comment in the next week or two, so that should make up the missing comment preview feature.

@Vito We just updated how usernames are displayed. If you edit your name on your profile, as you have done, your name will appear on all of your comments instead of your username.

I’ll look into the issues with the email notifications. Should have a fix for that this week sometime.

Thanks for your patience, everyone!

Sonny, I, too, have gotten notices of multiple new CT postings that were not visible when I checked for them. This happens especially on the Radio City Music Hall site for whatever reason. Then I discovered that by clicking on the word COMMENTS, the most recently posted messages – the ones I’ve been notified about – become visible.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Re-registering.