1932: Radio City Music Hall opens

History.com has this for 27 December:

At the height of the Great Depression, thousands turned out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, a magnificent art deco theater in New York City. It was designed as a palace for the people, a place of beauty where ordinary people could see high-quality entertainment. Since its 1932 opening, more than three hundred million people have gone to there to enjoy movies, stage shows, concerts, and special events.Radio City Music Hall was the brainchild of billionaire John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who decided to make the theater the cornerstone of the Rockefeller Complex he was building in a formerly derelict neighborhood in midtown Manhattan. The theater was built in partnership with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and designed by Donald Deskey. The result was an Art Deco masterpiece of elegance and grace constructed out of a diverse variety of materials, including aluminum, gold foil, marble, permatex, glass, and cork. Geometric ornamentation is found throughout the theater, as is Deskey’s central theme: Progress of Man. The famous Great Stage, measuring sixty feet wide and a hundred feet long, resembles a setting sun. Its sophisticated system of hydraulic-powered elevators allowed spectacular effects in staging, and many of its original mechanisms are still in use today.In its first four decades, Radio City Music Hall alternated as a first-run movie theater and a site for gala stage shows. More than seven hundred films have premiered at Radio City Music Hall since 1933. In the late 1970s, the theater changed its format and began staging concerts by popular music artists. The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, which debuted in 1933, draws more than a million people annually. The show features the high-kicking Rockettes, a precision dance troupe that has been a staple at Radio City since the 1930s.In 1999, it underwent a seven-month, seventy million dollar restoration. Today, Radio City Music Hall remains the largest indoor theater in the world.

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