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Studio 54 was a legendary New York City disco located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. It opened on April 26, 1977 and closed in March 1986. It currently serves as a venue for the Roundabout Theatre Company, with a 900 seat theatre equipped with two full service bars. Studio 54 was operated by the flamboyant, publicly visible Steve Rubell and retiring silent partner Ian Schrager. Studio 54 Tickets Hedonistic Rubell was known for hand selecting guests from the always huge crowds outside, mixing beautiful "nobodies" with glamorous celebrities in the same venue.
A successor club, Studio 54, Las Vegas opened its doors in December 1997.
The theatre originated as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, and over the course of the next decade changed its name several times. It became known as the New Yorker Theatre in 1930, the Casino de Paris in 1933, the Palladium Theatre in 1936 and the Federal Music Theatre in 1937. Later in 1937, the name was changed back to the New Yorker Theatre. Studio 54 tickets for sale online. This name would remain until CBS purchased the facility in the 1950s, renaming it Studio 52.
From the 1950s to the mid-1970s, CBS used the location as a radio and TV stage that housed such shows as What's My Line?, The $64,000 Question, Password, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, The Jack Benny Show, I've Got a Secret, Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, and Captain Kangaroo. The soap opera Love of Life was produced there until 1975.
In 1976, CBS concentrated most of its New York broadcast functions around the corner to its storied Ed Sullivan Theater (CBS-TV Studio 50) or west to the CBS Broadcast Center, and sold Studio 52. The Ed Sullivan Theater once had access to Studio 54 through an access door which was cinder-blocked during the Theater's Letterman Renovation studio 54 tickets. The building was purchased and renamed for its street address, 254 West 54th Street, a location already noted for another tenant in the building, famed disco record label West End Records.
Studio 54 was operated by the flamboyant, publicly visible Steve Rubell and retiring silent partner Ian Schrager. Hedonistic Rubell was known for hand selecting guests from the always huge crowds outside, mixing beautiful "nobodies" with glamorous celebrities in the same venue. "Studio", as it came to be called, was notorious for the hedonism that went on within; the balconies were known for sexual encounters, and drug use was rampant. Its dance floor was decorated with a depiction of a Man in the Moon that included an animated cocaine spoon.
In 1979, Rubell and Schrager were arrested for skimming $2.5 million, and the club was closed with one final party called "The End of Modern-day Gomorrah," on February 4, 1980. New York lawyer Gary Naftalis successfully represented Schrager in the ensuing tax evasion prosecution. After the club's closing, cocaine and money were found in its walls Studio 54 tickets.
The club reopened on September 12, 1981, when it was bought for $4.75 million by restaurant and nightclub owner Mark Fleischman. Celebrities continued to frequent the club, though the level of sensationalism was far toned down from its original levels. This second incarnation closed down in March, 1986, due to changing tastes.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the venue was known as The Ritz, and hosted rock concerts. In 1994, after becoming a strip club for a few years, the club finally reopened with much fanfare with a live concert by disco stars Gloria Gaynor, Vicki Sue Robinson, and Sister Sledge. The club again went into bankruptcy the following year until 1998, when it was acquired by the Roundabout Theater Company and renamed The Roundabout Theater at Studio 54. Studio 54 Tickets!
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