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Additional authors

1. Montadoro, Marco.

Description

1. 355 designs in 3 boxes: gouache; 38 x 54 cm. or smaller.

Summary

1. The Roxy Theatre and Radio City Music Hall costume design drawings executed in gouache provide detailed and colorful documentation of many Roxyette and Rockette performances.

Subject

1. Costume design > New York (State) > New York
2. Bowman, Patricia
3. Gouaches
4. Packard, Albert
5. Roxy Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
6. Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.)
7. Costume design drawings

Genre/Form

1. Costume design drawings.
2. Gouaches.

Call number

1. *T-Vim 1993-036

Source (note)

1. Gift of Regina Packard, 1993.

Biography (note)

1. Albert Packard was the business manager of the costume shop for both the Roxy Theatre and Radio City Music Hall from 1930 until 1982.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall costume designs and records, *T-Vim 1993-036.

Author

1. Packard, Albert.

Title

1. Roxy and Radio City Music Hall costume designs: [graphic,] circa 1930-1939.

Biography

1. Albert Packard was the business manager of the costume shop for both the Roxy Theatre and Radio City Music Hall from 1930 until 1982. The Roxyettes/Rockettes, a precision chorus line marked by synchronized high kicking, began as the Missouri Rockets in 1925. After moving to New York City, they becoming the resident performers at the Roxy Theatre and were renamed the Roxyettes. The Roxyettes were part of the opening show at Radio City Music Hall in 1932, stayed on and were renamed the Rockettes in 1934. Both theaters had a ballet corps as well as the precision dancers.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall costume designs and records, *T-Vim 1993-036.

Source

1. Gift of Regina Packard, 1993.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
2. Finding Aid

Added author

1. Montadoro, Marco.

Research call number

1. *T-Vim 1993-036