Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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Thanks Rob
I am curious about how it was handled.
Such as are the Digital projectors still set up in the 1st mezz and was the film handled via MUTTS?
Are digital “films” “projected”, sent to the screen via cable or played in a DVD machine? Will appreciate knowing how digital presentations work. Thanks in advance.
Vito, digital with a film backup. I wasn’t there, but a couple of the guys I work with were sound techs hired by the studio, one of them a former projectionist. He said it went well once they tuned everything up. I’ll try to get some details when he returns from the gig he’s on over the weekend.
Digital I presume.
How is the presentation handled, lights curtsin etc.
I was there, unfortunately. Lots of screaming. Sad scene.
Ziggy, you’re so correct, i’m so depressed I can’t go to therapy today
To think that films such as “Sex and the City” are even made at all is bad enough, but to inflict them on a place like Radio City Music Hall just goes to show how pathetically low standards have fallen.
Last night, “Sex and the City 2” held its world premiere at the hall. A bunch of my high-school friend’s friend saw the movie and thought it was good. The movie opens tonight at 7 p.m. and at midnight at theatres everywhere.
The Dalai Lama will be at the hall this week to teach Buddhism as part of his trip to New York City.
I agree. No Rockette should be asked to do something so demeaning.
Sacreligious
In later years during the easter show the part of the priest who lights the electric candles on the altar was portrayed by a rockette in disquise. This was in the setting where all the Rockets became nuns to help form the living cross while they all held easter lillies.
I visited the Music Hall often in the 50’s and 60’s. I always wondered why “Gigi” never played here. It would have been the perfect place and most MGM musicals at the time did play there. The only reason I can figure is the length of the film, about 2 hours. Why didn’t “Gigi” play at RCMH?
I remember going across the street for coffee& standing against wall so I could talk to the girls in line, I always made sure to ask the boss if I could do some organ work on these days thanks tinseltoes
brought back some fun memories for me
thanks tinseltoes, withhout you,i’d forget how the place looked
There was a brief outdoor shot of RCMH on HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ Sunday night.
Tinseltoes, maybe you should get a PR job with the Music Hall.
Renewing link.
maybe they’ll count my wheel chair too, i’ve got a fat butt so maybe that counts as 2 seats!! the organ has 2 seats also, one for each console, but REndres is correct ,i spoke to friends there this past holiday run&hes right on the moneyfrom what i heard
In a sense everybody may be right, since the seat count at the Hall frequently changes. When I first started learning about the Hall when I was in Illinois, it was listed as having 6,200 seats. Fred Kellers, who was a Vice President of House Operations told me that Roxy wanted to claim that the Hall had more seats than his former venue theRoxy. Thus, they counted even the toilets as “seats” along with the furniture in the lobby.
While that story may be fanciful, the number of seats did change. Even before the concert and telecast age, if the pasarelle (Sp?), or ramp along thefront of the orchestra pit was in for the Rockettes to move out into the audience for their finale, one or two rows of seats at the front of the orchestra were lost, thus reducing the number.
As oldjoe points out above, seating on the orchestra pit itself added seats for some concerts (they’re regarded as “VIP” seats, although I’ve always thought the sightlines were not particularly good unless the performer was working far downstage.)
The move of the house sound board from the Projection level to the 2nd Mezz. lost some seats, and the number constantly changes to accomdate various pieces of equipment as well as the demands of the various telecasts which originate there. Thus all of the above seating estimates may be correct at any given point in time.
old joe- u didn’t upset me its just that so many people constantly
claim they know this and that, i got that all the time regarding the organ, it seems theres better things to do with our time, my writing here is a waste of time i should be at the therapists working harder so i can return to my beloved music hall, maybe when i’m back i’ll go walk around and do an actual count Lord willing, anyhow best to all keep writing!!!we need more people caring about the place.
There is no difference Den. Sorry to have upset you.
There is no difference Den. Sorry to have upset you.
The NFL Draft will be held at this venue next week.
I remember reading someplace many years ago that seating was 6,400.