Two monumental puppets representing Patience and Fortitude, the lions guarding the entrance to the main branch of New York Public Library, tapped their paws and swished their tails onstage at Radio City Music Hall the other day. It was break time during rehearsals for Radio City’s “New York Spring Spectacular,” and in an orchestra seat, Randy Weiner, one of the show’s creative directors, leaned back and began formulating, aloud, a few interesting notions.

Some had to do with the scene that had just unfolded, a bit of interactive business in which Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, as the recorded voices of the lions, asked audience members to answer questions about New York.

Others had a cosmic tinge.

“What’s so interesting, there are these two institutions, Radio City and the Rockettes,” Mr. Weiner said. “How do you honor these traditions? How do you move forward with Radio City? Is this quiz show the right tone for this place, with these carpets and plush seats? We have too much show, so what do we edit? Is there enough of the Rockettes?”

With previews beginning on March 12, these are questions that require answers, soon.

Mr. Weiner is known for free-form, immersive productions like “The Donkey Show,” a disco-era retelling of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that he devised with his wife, Diane Paulus, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater and the other creative director of the Radio City show. More recently, he created “Queen of the Night,” a multimedia bacchanal at the Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel.