Radio City Music Hall Center. The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and interior designer Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Stone used Indiana Limestone for the facade, as with all the other buildings in Rockefeller Center, but he also included some distinguishing features. Three signs with the hall's name on it were placed on the facade, while intricately ornamented fire escapes were installed on the walls facing 50th and 51st Streets. Inside, Stone designed Grand Foyer with a large staircase, balconies, and mirrors, and commissioned Ezra Winter for the grand foyer's mural, "Quest for the Fountain of
Radio City Music Hall taped a live stage show, called "Barney Live in New York City" at the theater. In February 1998, Radio City Music Hall was a setting for the "Sesame Street" music special "Elmopalooza", with Jon Stewart, David Alan Grier and others with the cast of "Sesame Street" and the Muppets. In October 2001, the concert "" was simulcast live from the theater on The WB and TNT. The concert had been delayed following the September 11 attacks the month before. Radio City Music Hall was also the site for "Jeopardy!"'s 4,000th episode in May 2002, at which time the show's Million