Showpeople's Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall Showpeople's Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall The Showpeople's Committee To Save Radio City Music Hall was an organization established for the purpose of preventing the closing and demolition of Radio City Music Hall in 1978. On January 7, 1978, two days after Radio City Music Hall President Alton Marshall made the announcement that the iconic Art Deco theater would close on April 12, 1978, Rosemary Novellino, Dance Captain of the Radio City Music Hall Ballet Company, formed the Showpeople's Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall. Motivated by anger, shock and passion for the Music Hall, fellow employees
Showpeople's Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall The Bill Boggs Show, the Joe Franklin Show, and ABC's Good Morning America in New York City. She was invited to fly out to California to appear on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, on NBC. and was also a guest speaker on radio broadcasts in Manhattan including Joe Franklin's radio program and WCBS Radio with Art Athens. The Committee generated several successful publicity stunts intended to embarrass the management of the Music Hall. On Sunday, April 3, 1978, employees appeared outside the theater in suits of armor to represent the battle to save the theater and used the opportunity to collect signatures