Choreographer Russell Markert created the first cast of what would become the Rockettes in 1925 at the urging of the Skouras brothers, a trio of siblings who ran a movie theater in St. Louis. Markert recruited 16 women to dance as pre-movie entertainment. They primarily performed in the theater, as the Missouri Rockets. “They were part of the offerings from that theater,” says Amanda Clark, a public historian at the Missouri Historical Society. “It was not just them, but also an animal show, vaudeville shows, all this stuff would lead up to the movie starting.”
While on a national tour, New York theater owner S.L. Rothafel, better known as Roxy, noticed the company. He acquired the organization, moved the group to New York and expanded the cast.
When the troupe first arrived in New York City, its performances didn’t closely resemble today’s Christmas Spectacular. Instead, they continued accompanying films at Radio City Music Hall, which opened in 1932.
“Every time there was a new film, they would have a new number,” says Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers, a former Rockette and a dance and theater scholar at Wittenberg University in Ohio. “They had the introduction number, and then they had a specialty number - it could have a cowboy theme, if the movie had a cowboy theme. So, the dancers had to be super malleable.”
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