Rainbow Room

Why don't we put something together? And we did a one-nighter at the Triad Theater on the Upper West Side.

Christopher had been subbing at the Rainbow Room in the last days of the Rainbow Room, six nights a week for dancing.

And Hillary was the usual femme chirp or female vocalist.

And so Christopher brought Hillary in at that point.

[upbeat music] Our guest today is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, musical director, and longtime member of the creative community.

She's performed everywhere from jazz clubs and theaters to the Rainbow Room, and technically Carnegie Hall.

She's also worked behind the scenes on Broadway, coached singers, and created album artwork for some of the biggest names and shows in theater.

We welcome in Stephanie Layton.

King Dra!

"Yo, I was hanging out in the Rainbow Room over at 30 Rock, and guess who I saw?" That's not an in the ...

You'll never believe it.

Yeah.

I mean, oh, my God.

We were at the Rainbow Room, and I got caught, this guy and I, like...

In the bathroom or just, like, in the fucking room? You know, the elevator banks? Like, early 20s were a blast.

Yeah.

Erin says, "You don't have anything on Google about yourself that's embarrassing?" So now Jessel reads all these positive articles about herself.

I said, "But Jessel, let's get into how your stomach was bubbling at the season 14 premiere party at the Rainbow Room, and I was there.

So if somebody brought that up, how would you feel? Like, Page Six reported on the fact that your stomach was hurting, and you had to be whisked away." Like, I, I'm just...

You know, like, o- okay.

[laughs]

Hey, you were, you, you worked at the Rainbow Room.

I was living it up.

You worked the champagne counter at the Rainbow Room.

That's exactly right.

Thinking it would be consistent, yes, but no.

His brother worked for an ad agency.

And one of the ad agency's clients was Restaurant Associates, which built Windows on the World and the Rainbow Room and the Forum of the Twelve Caesars, all of this.

So this ad agency, every Friday, They would go to lunch in one of their clients' restaurants.

The whole office, everybody.

His decorative posters show Max to be a visionary fascinated by time, space, and evolution, a 1967 Village Voice critique said.

A psychedelic skyline prophesizes a day when skyscrapers may be temples, when the Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room may be used for meditation.

He died in a hospital in Manhattan and is survived by his daughter, Libra, and his son, Adam.

Peter Max, dead at 88.