Radio City Music Hall, located in the Rockefeller Center complex, is the largest indoor theater in the world. Most famous as the home of the legendary Rockettes.Over the years Radio City Music Hall has also hosted some of the world’s greatest entertainers on its Great Stage. More than 300 million people have come to the Music Hall to enjoy stage shows, movies, concerts and special events.
Radio City Music Hall got its name because Rockefeller Center’s first tenant was the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the complex was known as “Radio City” in its early years. Radio City Music Hall was designed to be a “palace for the people,” offering spectacular entertainment at a price the average New Yorker could afford. The “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ, with pipes housed in eleven separate rooms, was built especially for the theatre. Original special effects mechanisms, still in use today, can produce rain, fog and clouds through a system that draws steam directly from a Con Edison generating plant nearby.
Every year more than a million visitors make the Radio City Christmas Spectacular part of their holiday festivities. The eight-week show has been a sell-out success since its debut in 1933. It is a combination of many old favorites including “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” and “The Living Nativity” as well as new delights. The show also features over 140 performers, lavish sets and costumes and an original musical score. The 90 minute revue combines singing, dancing and humor with traditional scenes in spectacular stage settings. The star performers are the 36 women that made up the precision dance troupe known as the Rockettes. This year, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular invites you its 78th holiday celebration holiday celebration. The 2009 edition features the most dramatic re-imagining of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in 78 years!
