Center Theatre

• Catch My Soul (World Premiere, 1968)
  April 13, 1968 - no date entered yet
• Howdy, Mr. Ice (Original Broadway Production, 1948)
  June 24, 1948 - April 23, 1949
• La Bohème (Broadway Revival, 1948)
  April 14, 1948 - May 2, 1948
• Icetime (Original Broadway Production, 1946)
  June 20, 1946 - no date entered yet
• La Bohème (Broadway Revival, 1944)
  April 30, 1944 - no date entered yet
• Stars on Ice (Original Broadway Production, 1942)
  July 2, 1942 - no date entered yet
• Stars on Ice (Original Broadway Production, 1942)
  July 2, 1942 - April 16, 1944
• It Happens on Ice (Second Edition, 1941)
  July 15, 1941 - April 26, 1942
• It Happens on Ice (Original Broadway Production, 1940)
  April 4, 1941 - June 14, 1941
• It Happens on Ice (Original Broadway Production, 1940)
  October 10, 1940 - March 8, 1941
• Swingin' the Dream (Original Broadway Production, 1939)
  November 29, 1939 - December 9, 1939
• Virginia (Original Broadway Production, 1937)
  September 2, 1937 - October 23, 1937
• White Horse Inn (Broadway Production, 1936)
  October 1, 1936 - April 10, 1937
• The Great Waltz (Broadway Production, 1934)
  August 5, 1935 - September 16, 1935
• The Great Waltz (Broadway Production, 1934)
  September 22, 1934 - June 8, 1935

Built: 1932
Venue Status: 1954
Demolished: 1954
Seating Capacity: 3510

Location Info

1236 Sixth Avenue
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• Center Theatre (1934)
• RKO Center Theatre (1933)
• New RKO Roxy Theatre (1932)

Located at Rockefeller Center, it opened as a cinema on December 29, 1932. From 1934–1940, it presented spectacles and extravaganzas. 1940–1950, it presented ice shows. From 1950–1954, it was home to NBC Television.

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While showing movies, it held the New York premieres of several now-classic films. It shared the premiere engagement of King Kong with Radio City Music Hall in 1933. And in 1940, it housed the premiere of Pinocchio, as well as others.

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The site of the Center is now the Radio City parking garage.

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Ethel Merman and Mary Martin broadcast their historic joint concert from here in 1953.

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The theatre was massive. The span of the stage was 80 feet (twice the size of most theatres) and the proscenium was 80 feet high.