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You put this together?? Wonderful!! Fabulous!! I worked at RCMH for a couple years mid 1970s, just before Disney (?) arrived, re-imagining the theater, so it was 'as built'. I guess it was the end of the daily 3 show, 4 movie format. Peter Gennaro was the choreographer for the Rockettes.
I worked mainly electrics, front light. there were a couple of backstage follow spots too, high on the side walls. as a frontlight operator, there were a few positions at which we operated TWO what, Genarcos? can't remember what they were, but i take great pride in having had that task. i've wondered if the Music
Hall was the only place (or the last place) that ever did that.
when i left i was training on the original lighting
console between the pit and the audience. all bronze fittings, as i recall.
The head Carpenter at the time, John Lemac, once fell from a side bridge to the
deck. Survived, because he landed on some cardboard boxes.
Later I played the Fox (Atlanta) with the first show to present following the 'reactivation' of the theater so i guess that was the first time they tried to renovate it. that would be 1976 or so. now that was some joint, but the Music
Hall was the queen of them all, including the only theater to come near it, the original configuration of the Met
Opera House at Lincoln Center.
I sure appreciate your piece on Peter Clark.
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