Editing Radio City Music Hall (section)

====Lobbies and grand foyer====
[[File:Radio City Music Hall (36537697495).jpg|thumb|Grand Foyer]]

The entrance to Radio City is at its southwestern corner, where there are adjacent ticket and advance sales lobbies. Both lobbies contain terrazzo floors and marble walls. The ticket lobby, accessible from Sixth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, is the larger of the two lobbies. There are four brass ticket booths: one each on the northern and southern walls and two booths in the center.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}} Originally, six ticket booths were placed about {{convert|22|ft}} from the main doors, dividing the lobby into corridors measuring {{convert|16|ft}} wide. This permitted adequate traffic flow within the lobby while also making it difficult for crowds to congregate.{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}} Large black pillars support a low, slightly [[coffer]]ed ceiling.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}} Circular light fixtures are set into the ceiling of the ticket lobby, within each of the slight indentations.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=16}} The advance sales lobby, accessible from 50th Street just east of Sixth Avenue, contains a single ticket booth on the eastern wall.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}}{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}} This location allowed the advance-sales booth to be distinguished from the general sales booths while also not blocking traffic flow.{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}}

To the ticket lobby's east and the advance sales lobby's northeast is the elliptical grand foyer, whose four-story-high ceiling and dramatic artwork contrast with the compactness of the lobby.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=11}} The space is about {{convert|40|ft}} deep and extends the width of the auditorium.{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}} Two long, tubular chandeliers created by [[Edward F. Caldwell & Co.]] hang from the ceiling.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=11}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=18}} The northern side of the grand foyer contains Ezra Winter's mural. A grand staircase, leading up to the first-mezzanine foyer, runs along the northern wall next to Winter's mural.<ref name="Storey 1932" />{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}}{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|pp=11, 15}} Another set of stairs below the grand staircase descends from the northern side of the foyer to the main lounge one level below.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=13}} A smaller staircase to the first-mezzanine lounge runs along the southern wall, connecting to a curved extension of that level's balcony.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=15}} The southern and northern sides of the grand foyer, respectively leading to 50th and 51st Streets, contain shallow vestibules with red marble walls. The northern vestibule is used as the exit lobby, while the southern vestibule is an emergency exit.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}} The grand foyer's eastern wall contains openings from the first, second, and third mezzanine levels, and the western wall contains {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} mirrors within gold frames.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=11}} Eleven doors leading to Radio City's auditorium are also located on the grand foyer's eastern side.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=13}} Chambellan commissioned several plaques on the auditorium doors' exteriors, which resemble the vaudeville representations in the lobby and depict the types of performances that have taken place at Radio City.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=13}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=23}}

The foyer connects to four elevators that serve the main lounge level through the third mezzanine level.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}}{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}} At ground level, a marble lobby for these elevators is to the west of the northern exit vestibule.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}} Chambellan also designed the elevator doors with reliefs of musicians in atypical representations.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}}{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=48}} The maple circular roundels inside the cabs were designed by [[Edward Trumbull]] and represent wine, women, and song.{{sfn|Roussel|2006|p=51}}{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=12}}

Each of the three mezzanine levels has a men's smoking room, a women's lounge, and men's and women's restrooms.{{sfn|Hofmeister|1932|p=360}}{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=15}} No two restrooms or lounges have the same design.{{sfn|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1978|p=15}} A 1932 ''New York Times''  article described the reasons for such varied designs: "Since the auditoriums, men's lobbies, smoking rooms and women's lounges are used for a few hours only, decorative schemes are appropriate in them that would be too dramatic for a home."<ref name="Storey 1932">{{cite news|title=Modern Decorations on a Grand Scale|first=Walter Rendell|last=Storey|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|date=December 25, 1932 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/12/25/100885919.pdf|access-date=December 15, 2017|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220547/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/12/25/100885919.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|url-status=live}}</ref>