Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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premium seats are only the orchestra center 3 sections, first 15 rows, first 4 rows 250, the rest 150. some sat night shows all prem tix will be 250
justin – changes to marquee would first have to be approved by rock center (cablevision rents) and the then NY buildings landmark mark commission – won’t ever happen
yup. We have all the needs for entertainment at our fingertips. Back in the old days, the only means were the paper, the theater for movies and or plays, and sporting events.
EXACTLY .. With a choice of essentials or the RCMH, guess what will prevail? A real shame, because the Hall should avail itself to everyone as it’s a “show in itself”. This is the only taste the young people of today of actually seing a showcase of yesteryear. Very few grand palaces that used to show movies are still standing, and of course those that are, are being used for special concerts and events. Feel sorry for those who haven’t had the opportunity of seeing movies in a place where MOVIES SHOULD BE SEEN. Give me the good ole days. Of course, what kids don’t have today they don’t miss. Alas!!
Shelling out &1.000 bucks IS a lot of bucks…but considering the price of everything else today…Theatre, Opera, sporting events etc..PLUS the price of gasoline not to mention RICE. Nothin' is cheap anymore, including the Xmas show!!!
yeah, right, warren. Radio City and Rockettes…perfect together.
Check out ESPN right now, the Hall is now on TV just in time for the NFL Draft. This event was first held at the hall in 2006 after being held at the Jacob Center for a few years before the infamous West Side Stadium dispute began, of which Cablevision was involved. Recently, Elton John performed a sold-out fundraiser for the Democratic Party. The first sporting event held here was a boxing match. Lots of cool things have happened at the Hall since they stopping showing so much movies and relying more on rockettes and concerts. Are there plans to restore the hall again in the near future? They should install a scrolling LED banner below the “Radio City” sign so that it’s high tech.
So where is the Nativity in the Temple ad? Wasn’t it there for Flying down to Rio?
I’ve never seen Bright Eyes but it is really full of romance and adventure?
I mean are Gardner and Gable in it?
Someone named AlAlvarez did a terrific job of posting all regular engagement RCMH movies from “The Bitter Tea of General Yen” through “Scrooge” at the end of 1970. Did he or anyone else ever post a listing of all movies from “Scrooge” through “The Promise” in the spring of 1979? Thank you. – Ed Blank, retired film critic in Pittsburgh
Yep. Shirley Temple was a great child actor, compared with others who take drugs like Heath Ledger, Macaulay Culkin, and Brad Renfro.
such fond memories of going to the xmas show every year while I was in junior school in Ridgefield. Very little has changed since that photo was taken, even with the major restoration project that made the Hall look like it was new again. As for that other photo that LM posted, that show is based on a spinoff of the popular Dora cartoon, which SNL parodied a year ago and broadcasted from the studios near this treasure.
Here is a December 1996 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/6xmboy
Bosley Crowther’s New York Times review is dated 9/25/64 (“opened at the Music Hall”)
That’s a great word, “zingiest”. You don’t hear it anymore these days.
Here is a September 1964 ad from the NYT:
http://tinyurl.com/23lnyd
TheatreOrgan, the memories from 39 years ago come back easily – it’s the stuff that happened last week that I have trouble with :) You mentioned the Capitol in your earlier post – that’s where the original “Planet of the Apes” opened in 1968.
That POTA movie that featured RCMH in shambles showed a vision of New York that didn’t match that of 9/11, when a chunk of Lower Manhattan was destroyed by terrorists. Since then, security has been increased and will try to keep RCMH safe from jets and terrorist acts, not to mention crane accidents like the one in midtown a few weeks ago.
Thanks to all for the comments regarding my recollections of 1969 at RCMH. Naturally, my primary reason for going to RCMH as an 18 year old organist, for the first time, was to see/hear the Wurlitzer. Now that I’ve read your comments Bill H., it could have been the Loew’s State where I actually saw the Apes I or II movie. It is good to hear your collective memories from a period that was 39 years ago!
I went to see Crossed Swords solely because it was playing at Radio City. What a snoozer! But, I loved the stage show.
Wasn’t “The Magic of Lassie” one of James Stewart’s last films?
TheatreOrgan is probably remembering the shot of the destroyed Radio City in “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” when he says he actually saw the movie there. That was the best shot in the picture, for my money.
My cousin and I saw “Beneath” at Loew’s State 2, then went to Radio City for “The Out-of-Towners” later that day. He said we should get there quick “before the apes get to it”.
As a matter of fact Warren, I’m old enough and do remember that crap playing there in 1978. What a shame.
In some cases all too well! In the case of “Caravans” Universal picked up distribution just so we would have a picture to play. In the final years of the movie/stage show policy, Universal was the most supportive studio.
In all due fairness, one of the above films was a “hit” selling out almost every performance over the opening weekend. That was “Magic of Lassie” which hit the right combination by featuring Lassie on stage in the show which accompanied the film. Bonita Granville Wrather was a charming lady whose husband had the rights to both “Lassie” and “The Lone Ranger”. She visited us in the booth, and not only sent recording tapes to me when she found out it was an interest, but sent a “tip” to the crew and “autographed” pictures of Lassie. From the evidence at the Hall, she thought the film was going to be a huge success, and we heard she was devastated when in opened later to minimal crowds.
The scenes depiciting a buried and long-ago decimated NYC are from the immediate sequel, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes.” Ironically, one of the images of the ruins shows a derilect RCMH marquee, broken and covered in centuries of dust and debris.
I was reading the comments on the Ziegfeld Theatre page here and noticed that they were talking about the return of The Planet of the Apes movies to the Ziegfeld Theatre. I recalled seeing Planet of the Apes (1) or maybe (2) I can’t remember which, in the spring of 1969, when I graduated from high school and made my first trip to NYC to see RCMH and the Big Wurlitzer. I remember finding it odd that those in the audience laughed when they saw parts of NYC abandoned in some of the scenes. Apparently the RCMH didn’t have the solo run of this movie, as they mentioned it was also at the Capitol and perhaps other theatres. Anyway, always enjoyed RCMH on that trip and many since. Would love to get my fingers on that well/overly guarded Wurlitzer!
Thanks. I knew that was from the thirties, but I couldn’t remember anything else.
Yes, Lady Vanishes was from his Gaumont British studio days.