Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
1260 6th Avenue,
New York,
NY
10020
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After going through the various lists up above, I have to agree with Al and Vito and vote for “Auntie Mame”, especially because it has a long and very moving Christmas sequence in which Mame gives her last dime to the Salvation Army. There’s also a very funny sequence right before that in which she almost single-handedly destroys Macy’s toy department, where she works and from where she gets fired.
Justin: Amen…long live Radio City Music Hall, a true cinema treasured landmark!
happy 77th birthday!!! Three years from now the world might end but the landmark will live on!!!
On this date,today, December 27, 1932 Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City! Congratulations and may this great theatre continue to provide audiences with fun, dazzle and wonder forever!
I would agree with Al on “Auntie Mame” and add
1956 “Teahouse of the August Moon” and 1957 “Sayonara”
I saw “Scrooge” starring Albert Finney at the RCMH. It was during Christmas week in December 1970 and it was memorable. Imagine also seeing the Christmas Show, too. I also saw “Jumbo” with Doris Day at Christmas. I think I paid under $2. I haven’t been to RCMH since they stopped showing a feature film plus a show. For that cost, I could see an actual Broadway show.
AUNTIE MAME was and gets my vote.
Was Auntie Mame a Christmas attraction? I always remember Roz Russell mourning her husband, Beau in a very demur dress, until she turned around and the back was cut way down. Got a big laugh. The one peculiar thing about the MH acoustics was that applause didn’t sound like clapping, more like chirping birds.
rvb: More great RCMH memories! They are very special memories and thanks again for sharing!
I remember one year waiting on line to get into the Music Hall and several Rockettes came out in full makeup. It seemed very exaggerated. When I saw the special on PBS the makeup looked more natural. I also remember one time when one of the gals in the center did an extra kick and reacted to it. Always loved the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. I actually prefer the old Nativity with the the cast in shadows like statues and then they all start to move along the walls to the stage. As many times as I saw that it always got me. And believe me, my parents faithfully took me to every Christmas and Easter show, and some in between. Bus and subway. Per one of my previous postings we usually used the little known ticket booth at the subway level. First show 90 cents!!!!!!!
rvb: Cute story and thanks for sharing as I’m quite sure many of us have met and know many former Rockettes. They are a special group of women who bring such joy to RCMH holiday audiences each year! I’ve seen the show in Charlotte and in Buffalo, but never in NYC so maybe someday.
When I went to Sewanhaka High School, in Floral Park, Long Island, New York, a former Rockette, Muriel Nordman, I believe was her name, was a physical education teacher. She also had a cheerleading group with a Rockette type routine.“Remember to point your toes, girls”.
Many former RCMH Rockettes were interviewed and one was almost brought to tears when she recalled the possibility of this great theatre closing. In fact, a former Rockette lives in my hometown in western NYS….Emma Bishop. Since gracing the RCMH stage she has returned home to teach dance.
I just watched a DVD about the history of RCMH. It’s a must-see and can ordered through Time/Life. It was a bonus DVD that came with the Christmas Spectacular DVD celebrating its 75th year and featured Ross Melnick, Theatre Historian and co-creator of Cinema Treasures! Thanks Ross!
By the way Mitchell and Charisse are so hot in their number parents should have had it banned from the hall.
It’s pretty wonderful.
But Jose Farar?
Where in Deep does it say cinemascope.
Vito: It was all up to my dad. I was only 10 and can’t remember too well, but I probably wanted to wait. I do remember being very disappointed when we left the Radio City area. In January 1970, when I was 15 and old enough to go to Radio City without parents, I did wait about 5 hours to get it to Radio City for “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”.
But Bill, part of the fun was waiting on those long lines :)
Here is another one, this time going back to 1954.
This was the last of MGM’s all-star biographies of great songwriters, all of which played at RCMH as the Christmas attraction. The others were “Till the Clouds Roll By” (Jerome Kern, 1946) and “Words and Music” (Rodgers & Hart, 1948).
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Thanks Vito. That was the attraction that my dad took my sister and I to see … and we couldn’t get in because the line was too long. It would’ve taken more than three hours, on a bitterly cold day. But all was not lost – we simply went to see another movie: “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”, at the Victoria in Times Square. Not a better theater, but a better movie.
From Christmas 1964 when the Hall still showed a movie with the stage show.
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It’s been about 5 years since we have run through New Years.
Is this the first time in 30 years that a “Spectacular” run is extended? I recall the Christmas show usually running through the first weekend in January. That was the run of the show when I worked at the Hall in 1979/80.
Butts in the seats, crowds waiting to get in, not being able to move on 6th Ave. This is good news!
Well what ever it takes to get the butts in the seats.
Warms my heart to know the Hall is thriving.
That’s another surprising thing. Last year, there were large sections that were empty for the 9:00 AM shows. This year, they are filled.
Very true RCDTJ. My wife says when she leaves her shift everyday, she says the crowds waiting to get into the hall have been crazy. She says you cant move on 6th ave. Shes on the morning crew of setdressers and she says even those 9:00 AM shows are doing very well.