Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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Thank you oldjoe with help contacting Charles francisco.!!!
This site has contact info for Charles Franciso
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Contact Information: Agent- Julia Copersmith Literary Agency 10 West 15th Street New York, New York 10011
Does anyone know how to contact author of ,“Radio City Music Hall an affectionate history of the world’s greatest theater”, 1979 by Charles Francisco?
Later this month, the cast of Fox’s hit tv show Glee will be doing a concert live at this venue.
Lost link. Registering again.
I was at Radio City again 2 weeks ago to see Celtic Woman in concert. It always gives me a thrill to be back in this beautiful theater and brings back memories of the films I saw here with my family and friends during the 1960s. We were seated in the third row orchestra and you don’t realize just how big this theater is until the lights go on and you look back. Absolutely enormous.
Thanks for the info, Al.
The commitment to take down the Sixth Avenue El was made in 1924, way before the Music Hall began construction. Portions were already down when the theatre opened but the project was not completed until 1939.
Much of the scrap metal was sold to Japan who then turned it into war materials against us.
One of the photos announces “Lovely Grace Moore …” in a Radio City attraction. I love that – showmanship extends even to the marquee!
I wonder why the beautiful and spectacular RCMH was built facing 6th Ave. with an elevated train track in front of the facade. Why it was not built facing 5th Ave.? Anyone knows?
Hi, I am researching for a documentary on the life of Tessa Smallpage-Goldman, wife of Radio City’s Sidney Goldman. Tessa was an Australian soprano and married SIdney in 1950 and was a performer at the Radio City until her death in 1969.
If anyone has any stories, memories or photos etc of Sidney and/or Tessa I would love to hear from you.
Sidney started working at Radio City in 1934, he was Vice President of the Radio City until his retirement in 1970.
I can be contacted at
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Many thanks
Mark
a line got cut out, sorry, I said" there must be a curse on the organ"we all had something happen to us, my buddy&tech extraordinary
Ken ladner passed away,me with the Stroke Ray Bohr with lung cancer&so on
it was a load of fun watching the Christmas spectacular come together while I was there&listening to the Rockette rehearsals from the organ chambers, the orchesra rehearsals always brought tears to my eyes, plus my many late nights for george wesnerr&fred davies rehearsals on the organ, they were good guys and fun to work with,fred passed away last year in case anyone is interested, there I had a stroke, it goes on&on
Paul there is a great story regarding the presentation of the film including the projection of the train wreck on a larger screen image. It is described somewhere here if you have the patience to scroll around or perhaps REndres would be kind enough to repeat the marvelous story.
Was the stage show with The Greatest Show on Earth the shortest in RCMH history and the feature the longest shown? The stage presentation was barely 20 minutes. The usual newsreel was dispensed with. In fact, I recall the feature began over a large oval screen (a circus ring?) on stage right so that there was a seamless integration of stage show and film. The Paramount logo filled the oval and then I believe the credits were projected on the main screen which was lowered over the show finale.
That’s right! It looked like an arm that had all the life drained out of it.
I always remember how Cornell Wilde’s hand and arm looked after his fall; very strangely lit, sort of blue/green spooky.
If you like circus stories, there was an autobiography some years ago by a woman who did some TV called, I believe, “I Love You Honey but the Season’s Almost Over”. Her name was Claussen or something like that. A good read.
It was a good movie. I first rented it from the local library. Not as good as Ten Commandments, but worth watching if you like circus clowns and behind the scenes of what goes on behind the red tent.
That was the first time I was allowed to stay up till midnight to see the end of a movie. It was on the ABC Sunday Night Movie from 9 PM to midnight, in around 1966 or 1967. I was only 11 or 12 and had school the next day, but my parents couldn’t send me to bed before I saw the train wreck and its aftermath. That ending is extremely moving – to me it sums up what show business is all about, and who should know more about that than Cecil B. DeMille?
I agree Bill, I have a 16mm print I drag out every now and again.
Oh my goodness, how I would love to see it again at RCMH with the enhanced big screen train wreck scenes.
Thanks, Vito. I love that movie, and I defend it against people who say it didn’t deserve to win the Best Picture Oscar every chance I get.
January 10th 1952 the World premere at RCMH of
of the “Greatest Show on Earth”
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I can’t begin to tell how depressed i’ve been since my stroke 4 years now the music hall was my 2nd home the people there are family
they are great, the music hall has a safe future from what I saw while I was there, everyone cares very much for its continued success&they work very hard to ensure it.my love to all of you who work there and read this.
“Up The Down Staircase” played the Hall in the Summer of 1967. It is one of the famous “Radio City 11”. Well, they are certainly famous, and fabulous to me. I don’t have time to go into detail now; I will in my next post, which will be all about the numbers 2, 11 and 36.
There were no depressing films that played Radio City. Downbeat, maybe. Evocative, thought provoking, definitely. I"m Bipolar, and I can’t imagine the instance of sadness or depression that I would stay in one moment after seeing The Rockettes take the stage. I think it is physically and emotionally impossible to be depressed at the Music Hall.
nice interior shot Lost memory,I need all the help I can get,i’m forgetting how the place looked, i’m away 4 years now