Well....I'll go ahead and admit it.....I'm Terri See and I'm afraid of heights! BUT you don't travel all the way to New York City and not go to the top of a building....be it Rockefeller or Empire....to see the city from one of the coolest vantage point you just don't see everyday. Twenty two dollars and seventy stories later, I made it. My heart was beating out of my chest and I was very nervous, but it was worth it.
The NBC Studio tour was so interesting, but they would not let us take pictures or videos. We got to go the filming stage of Dr. Oz, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (which used to be where The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson taped), and the Saturday Night Live studio set. Other than SNL, the sound stages where tiny. The tricks used during taping are what makes the stages look so large. Where Jimmy Fallon starts the show doing his monologue...his desk and The Roots Band are a few steps away from him, but because they do no pan the camera, you never see the true size or depth of the studio. Two interesting pieces of trivia about SNL is that almost every scene is done on the same stage the host starts the show on and Chris Farley had almost every one of his scenes taped on a different stage than the others because he left such a mess, being that he was so physical and used messy props. They couldn't clean the set off fast enough after his scenes between commercials.
Well....I'll go ahead and admit it.....I'm Terri See and I'm afraid of heights! BUT you don't travel all the way to New York City and not go to the top of a building....be it Rockefeller or Empire....to see the city from one of the coolest vantage point you just don't see everyday. Twenty two dollars and seventy stories later, I made it. My heart was beating out of my chest and I was very nervous, but it was worth it. 
The NBC Studio tour was so interesting, but they would not let us take pictures or videos. We got to go the filming stage of Dr. Oz, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (which used to be where The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson taped), and the Saturday Night Live studio set. Other than SNL, the sound stages where tiny. The tricks used during taping are what makes the stages look so large. Where Jimmy Fallon starts the show doing his monologue...his desk and The Roots Band are a few steps away from him, but because they do no pan the camera, you never see the true size or depth of the studio. Two interesting pieces of trivia about SNL is that almost every scene is done on the same stage the host starts the show on and Chris Farley had almost every one of his scenes taped on a different stage than the others because he left such a mess, being that he was so physical and used messy props. They couldn't clean the set off fast enough after his scenes between commercials.
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