Dance Marathons Were the Forerunners of Today’s Reality TV

Dance Marathons Were the Forerunners of Today’s Reality TV

The venue was New York’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), June 1928. This was not the Madison Square Garden you and I might know, but rather a sturdy, rectangle-shaped arena located in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. (It was the third building to bear the MSG name; the current home of the Knicks, in Midtown Manhattan, is […]

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