Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is the famed entertainment venue at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.  The Music Hall gained its name from the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which produced radio programming for NBC and released many now-classic films through RKO Radio Pictures.  Radio City has been a leading venue for movie openings throughout the twentieth century, from the original King Kong, to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, to The Lion King.  Big-name musicians and entertainers have performed on the Great Stage for generations of audiences since the Music Hall opened in December 1932.  The Music Hall’s beautifully preserved Art Deco interior is the masterpiece of designer Donald Deskey, and it wows visitors as much as any show onstage.

• Radio City’s iconic performers are the Rockettes, a precision dance troupe originally founded in 1922 as the Missouri Rockets.  They performed at the Music Hall’s opening night in 1932, and by 1934 they were renamed the Radio City Rockettes.  They are world-renowned for their high-kick chorus line
• The Music Hall’s Great Stage, with its multiple hydraulic elevators, built-in turntable, special effects machines and massive Wurlitzer organ, is considered by technical experts to be the best equipped in the world

For more information, visit the official website at http://www.radiocity.com/.