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Studio 54 was originally built as the Gallo Opera House. The theatre opened in November 1927 with a production of La Boheme, San Carlo Opera Company's first production of an unsuccessful three-week season.
After financial difficulty with the opera, impresario Fortune Gallo soon turned to producing legitimate shows such as Electra, featuring Antoinette Perry (for whom the Tony Awards are name … Mored), and the Oscar Hammerstein musical Rainbow.
After continued failure, the theatre gained a reputation for bad luck and was sold in foreclosure shortly after the stock market crash of 1929.
In 1930 the space was renamed the New Yorker Theatre and housed productions like Ibsen's The Vikings. Over the next few years, the theatre continued to house flops. The space changed hands several times and became the Casino de Paris, the Palladium, and the Federal Music Theatre restored and run by the WPA.
The space was purchased by CBS in 1942 and became the CBS Radio Playhouse Number 4, and later Studio 52. Over the next three decades it was home to radio broadcasts and, later, renowned television shows like The Jack Paar Show, The Jack Benny Show, The Johnny Carson Show and such varied fare as The $64,000 Question, Beat the Clock and Captain Kangaroo.
In the late 1970s, the space was sold and transformed into the nightclub Studio 54, one of the most famed discos of all time. After the club was closed in 1986, it became a venue for rock concerts in the late '80's. Thereafter, the space was largely neglected until 1998 when Roundabout discovered the theatre, a jewel in the rough on the northern-most edge of the Broadway district. Today, Studio 54 is a permanent home for Roundabout Theatre Company and will house their musicals and large-scale productions for years to come.
Productions by Roundabout Theatre include their revival of Cabaret, Assassins, Pacific Overtures and A Streetcar Named Desire. Less
Writer and actress Carrie Fisher tells her story in the hit one-woman show Wishful Drinking, now at Studio 54. It's an incredible tale, from her childhood as the daughter of film stars Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher and stepdaughter of Elizabeth Taylor, to her big break starring as Princess Leia in Star Wars, her marriage to Paul Simon, and many more shocking and hilarious Hollywood stories. Learn more...
Roundabout Theatre Company presents Pal Joey. Rodgers and Hart's classic musical, set in 1930s Chicago, tells the story of a song and dance man whose dreams of owning his own nightclub lead him to leave his girlfriend for a wealthy, married older woman. The cast includes Stockard Channing and Martha Plimpton; Matthew Risch plays the title role. Learn more...
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical now comes to Broadway at Studio 54. Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will reprise their Olivier Award-winning performances as George and Dot. A timeless love story inspired by the life of painter George Seurat, the production recreates the world of Seurat's painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Learn more...
This hysterical farce stars Academy Award nominee Rosie Perez as Googie Gomez and Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin as Gaetano Proclo, a gay man hiding out from his homicidal brother-in-law who inadvertently finds himself in a gay bathhouse. Slamming doors, mistaken identities and advances--both wanted and unwanted--all build to a crazy conclusion that leaves everyone in hot water! Learn more...
This musical by the composer/lyricist team behind The Fantasticks is based on The Rainmaker, the Broadway play that was made into a movie with Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. During a heat wave in 1930s Texas, when everyone is longing for rain, it appears Lizzie (Audra McDonald) is on the verge of becoming an "old maid." When Starbuck, a charismatic rainmaker, arrives in town, Lizzie's world is turned upside down. Learn more...
Tony Award(R) winner Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown) returns to Broadway to star in the delicious production of Bock and Harnick's The Apple Tree. This musical comedy gem, written by the team behind She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof, presents a luscious evening of theater about men, women, the love that grows between them--and the irresistible temptation of forbidden fruit! Learn more...
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