Editing Radio City Music Hall (section)

===Music and shows===
Under conductor [[Ernö Rapée]], from 1932 to 1942, there were weekly broadcasts of live concerts from Radio City on the [[NBC Blue Network]] radio program ''[[Radio City Music Hall of the Air]]''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Federal Music Project|encyclopedia=The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia|volume=1|first=William H.|last= Young|first2= Nancy K.|last2= Young|year=2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-313-08871-1|page=166}}</ref><ref name="Dunning">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Radio+City+Music+Hall+of+the+Air+Erno%22&pg=PA179 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Radio City Music Hall of the Air |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=179 |edition=Revised |access-date=2024-11-27}}</ref> On October 8, 1939, Radio City's symphony orchestra performed the world premiere of [[Eugene Zador]]'s opera ''[[Christopher Columbus (Zador)|Christopher Columbus]]'' for national radio broadcast on ''Radio City Music Hall of the Air''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Straus |first=Noel |date=1939-10-09 |title=Columbus Voyage Depicted in Opera; Eugene Zador's One-act Work Has World Premiere Here at the Center Theatre |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/09/archives/columbus-voyage-depicted-in-opera-eugene-zadors-oneact-work-has.html |access-date=2024-07-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Originally the work was supposed to be performed on the stage of Radio City, but ticket sales were so strong that the production moved to the larger [[Center Theatre (New York City)|Center Theatre]] but with Radio City's artistic leaders and performers still attached.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cd_christopher-columbus-studies-for-orchestr_eugene-zador-westfalisches-sinfonieorchest?q=%22Josefa+Chekova%22 |title=Eugene Zador: Christopher Columbus, liner notes |publisher=Cambria |year=1997}}</ref>

The [[Grateful Dead]] played eight shows over nine days in October 1980, culminating on Halloween; two of the shows from this run were released as the video ''[[Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Palmer|first=Robert |title=Rock: The Grateful Dead|work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331|date=October 24, 1980 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/24/archives/rock-the-grateful-dead.html|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-date=January 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107021527/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/24/archives/rock-the-grateful-dead.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1980s, [[Liberace]] grossed $2.5 million from 14 performances with a combined audience of 82,000, setting a box-office record for Radio City Music Hall at the time.<ref>{{cite news|title=Flashy Piano Virtuoso Liberace Is Dead At 67|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 5, 1987|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/02/05/flashy-piano-virtuoso-liberace-is-dead-at-67/63533e46-df3e-40a1-a8be-0095cf94b3ab/|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=April 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220604/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/02/05/flashy-piano-virtuoso-liberace-is-dead-at-67/63533e46-df3e-40a1-a8be-0095cf94b3ab/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Adele]] performed a [[Adele Live in New York City|one-night-only concert]] at Radio City, which was recorded on November 17, 2015, and broadcast on [[NBC]] on December 14, 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jessica|last=Goodman|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/30/adele-live-new-york-city-radio-music-hall|title=Adele Will Perform One-Night-Only Show at Radio City Music Hall|access-date=November 25, 2015|date=October 30, 2015|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|archive-date=October 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151030145159/http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/30/adele-live-new-york-city-radio-music-hall|url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''[[Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes|Radio City Christmas Spectacular]]'' is an annual Christmas stage musical produced by [[MSG Entertainment]], which operates the theater. A New York Christmas tradition since 1933,<ref>{{cite news|title=Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Others in a Musical Film – Walt Disney's New 'Silly Symphony'|work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331|date=December 22, 1933|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/12/22/105834003.html|access-date=December 16, 2018|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220552/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/12/22/105834003.html|url-status=live}}</ref> it features the women's precision dance team known as [[the Rockettes]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Radio City Entertainment|title=Radio City Spectacular: A Photographic History of the Rockettes and Christmas Spectacular|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2007|isbn=978-0-06-156538-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=161bJAAACAAJ|access-date=December 16, 2018|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220552/https://books.google.com/books?id=161bJAAACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> The Irish dance show ''[[Riverdance]]'' made its North American debut at Radio City in March 1996, breaking box-office records.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dietz|first=D.|title=The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year=2016|isbn=978-1-4422-7214-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPLaDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|access-date=December 16, 2018|page=218|archive-date=July 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709183559/https://books.google.com/books?id=WPLaDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10|date=February 22, 1997|access-date=December 16, 2018|page=10|archive-date=July 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709183600/https://books.google.com/books?id=sQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10 |url-status=live}}</ref>