Roxy Theatre (New York City) founder continued at Radio City Music Hall into the 1970s. Radio City's lavish Christmas stage show, created in 1933 by the Roxy's former producer and choreographer, Leon Leonidoff and Russell Markert, continues to this day as the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular". The Music Hall itself was saved from demolition by a consortium of preservation and commercial interests in 1979 and it remains one of New York's entertainment landmarks. Its restored interior includes the lavish art deco offices created for "Roxy" Rothafel, preserved partly as a tribute to the visionary showman. Roxy Theatre (New York City) The Roxy Theatre was a
Radio City Music Hall said of the new Music Hall that it needs no performers; that its beauty and comforts alone are sufficient to gratify the greediest of playgoers." On January 11, 1933, after incurring a net operating loss of $180,000, the Music Hall converted to the then-familiar format of a feature film, with a spectacular stage show that Roxy had perfected. The first film shown on the giant screen was Frank Capra's "The Bitter Tea of General Yen", and the Music Hall became the premiere showcase for films from the RKO-Radio Studio, with "Topaze" the first RKO film to play there. The film-plus-stage-spectacle