Editing Radio City Music Hall (section)

==== Naming and construction ====
The International Music Hall evolved into a theater called Radio City Music Hall.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA252|page=252|title=World's Largest Theater in Rockefeller Center Will Seat Six Thousand|magazine=Popular Mechanics|date=August 1932|access-date=August 6, 2012|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818185109/https://books.google.com/books?id=7-EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA252|url-status=live}}</ref> The names "Radio City" and "Radio City Music Hall" derive from one of the complex's first tenants, the [[RCA|Radio Corporation of America (RCA)]], which planned a [[mass media]] complex called Radio City on the west side of Rockefeller Center.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/14/96156413.pdf|title=Rockefeller Plans Huge Culture Centre; 4 Theatres in $350,000,000 5Th Av. Project; A Huge Theatrical Venture Which Will Exploit Television, Music Radio, Talking Pictures and Plays Will Be Erected, It Was Disclosed Last Night, On the Site Assembled by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Between Fifth And|date=June 14, 1930|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 15, 2017|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220537/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/14/96156413.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Over time, the appellation of "Radio City" devolved from describing the entire complex to just the complex's western section.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Fitch |first1=James Marston |url=https://archive.org/stream/grandcentralterm00fitc |title=Grand Central Terminal and Rockefeller Center: A Historic-Critical Estimate of Their Significance |last2=Waite |first2=Diana S. |date=1974 |publisher=The Division |location=Albany, NY |page=12}}</ref> Radio City Music Hall was the only part of the complex that retained the name by 1937, and the name "Radio City" became shorthand for the theater.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Moscrip |date=1937 |title=Mystery on Sixth Ave. |work=[[Screen & Radio Weekly]] |url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201937%2520-%25206215.pdf |access-date=November 10, 2017 |via=[[Fultonhistory.com]] |url-status=live |archive-date=April 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220542/https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201937/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201937%20-%206215.pdf}}</ref>

[[File:Radio City Music Hall (36369298022).jpg|thumb|Interior view of auditorium]]
Construction on Radio City Music Hall started in December 1931,{{sfn|Adams|1985|p=40}} and the theater [[topped out]] in August 1932.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/08/11/100787345.pdf|title=Facade 'Topped Out' In Rockefeller Unit; Last Stone Laid on Exterior of Music Hall – Work on Other Buildings Speeded.|date=August 11, 1932|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 14, 2017|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220548/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/08/11/100787345.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Its construction set many records at the time, including the use of {{convert|15,000|mi}} of copper wire and {{convert|200|mi}} of brass pipe.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/08/18/118224102.html?pageNumber=23|title=Radio City Buys 15,000 Miles of Copper Wire; Early Start Looms in Construction Work|date=August 18, 1931|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=April 14, 2020|page=23|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403220541/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/08/18/118224102.html?pageNumber=23|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 1932, [[Russell Markert]]'s précision dance troupe [[The Rockettes|the Roxyettes]] (later to be known as the Rockettes) left the Roxy Theatre and announced that they would be moving to Radio City. By then, Roxy was busy adding music acts in preparation for the theater's opening at the end of the year.{{sfn|Balfour|1978|p=96}}{{sfn|Okrent|2003|pp=235–236}}