The Radio City Music Hall is regarded as one the greatest Art Deco structures ever built. This well-known landmark situated in New York City has entertained people of all age groups since its formation decades ago. The Radio City Music Hall showed a mixture of movies and shows at the time of its formation, while the format was changed in 1979 to concerts, stage shows and special events.
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The building got its names “Radio City" and "Radio City Music Hall" from one of the first tenants of the complex, the Radio Corporation of America. The Radio City Music Hall was a prestigious and huge project, on which Rockefeller, Samuel Roxy Rothafel and RCA chairman David Sarnoff worked together for many months. While Edward Durell Stone designed the exterior body of the Radio City Music Hall, Donald Deskey did the designing of the interior segment.
The facility of Radio City Music Hall was opened to the public on December 27, 1932. To mark the day, a spectacular stage of Ray Bolger and Martha Graham was organized. With the seating capacity of 5,933 seats for spectators, the Radio City Music Hall was the largest movie theater of its kind at the time of its opening. Reborn after a $70 million renovation work that took place in 1999, Radio City Music Hall has been restored to all of its original opulence. This entertainment venue located in the Rockefeller Center of New York City's is also known as the “Showplace of the Nation” as its interior décor was declared a city landmark in 1978.