7/28/2023 0 Comments Radio city music hall virtual tour![]() To keep people’s voices down, they designed it with the dimmer lighting and with the idea that the diagonal patterns and mirrored columns would keep people quieter. It was intended as a holding room between shows. Walk down the stairs, and you’ll see a lower lobby with dim lighting and a diagonal pattern. This is a working model of Radio City Music Hall, including lighting and hydraulics. We saw Cirque du Soleil here, as well as the Rockettes and Weird Al.ĭuring the tour, you’ll see a 1924 model of Radio City with a working stage, lights and hydraulics, which they sometimes use to test lighting and sets. This is where the Tonys are held, and used to be the location of the NFL draft and America’s Got Talent. The hall initially showed films, but within a year, featured the Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular, which debuted in 1933. The Radio City Music Hall was built in 1932, one of what eventually became 19 buildings making up Rockefeller Center. These doors leading into the theater have performing arts themes and were designed by a Hoboken artist. It was painted on a Brooklyn tennis court (not literally on the court, but on canvas lying on the court) and transported piece by piece to Radio City. Look up to see the 40’圆0′ foot mural behind on the grand staircase. The grand staircase and Ezra Winter mural in Radio City Music Hall, chandelier by Donald Desky. Here, we’ll help: guitar, banjo, sax, accordion, harp, clarinet. Look carefully and try to identify the six instruments. It’s designed by Ruth Reeves and is called Still Lives With Musical Instruments (yes, the carpet is titled – Google it – it’s fascinating). One thing that’s hard to appreciate when you’re milling about the lobby area before a show, is the carpet. Carpet designed for Radio City Music Hall. Sitting in and walking through an empty Radio City Music Hall is a blessing, since many people’s only experience is seeing it when it’s so mobbed you couldn’t fully take it in. Copyright Deborah Abrams Kaplanįor me, it was fun to actually see the details that I missed when the hall was mobbed and my only thought was looking up or figuring out which direction to go. And if you’re lucky like us, you’ll show up on one of the 40 or so days a year when there’s not a performance and they aren’t setting up for one. And it’s fun to wander around back stage and see Rockettes’ costumes up close (and meet a Rockette in person). There are details for those who care greatly about architecture, art and design. You can be a local and still take the Radio City Music Hall tour.
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