Studio 54 (Broadway)

This theatre was built in 1927 as the Gallo by Fortune Gallo for his San Carlo Opera Company. It opened on November 7, 1927, with the opera La Bohème. It didn’t make it as an opera house, so in 1930, as a legitimate theatre renamed the New Yorker, it booked Ibsen’s The Vikings. It did not do much better booking plays.

From 1933 to 1936 it became a
dinner theatre called the Casino de Paree managed by Billy Rose. Later, the Federal Theatre Project leased it for its productions and changed its name to the Federal Music Theatre. The Chicago Federal Theatre achieved success here with its production of Swing Mikado, a jazzy version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which moved to Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre and competed with Mike Todd’s Hot Mikado, starring Bill Robinson, across the street at the Broadhurst Theatre. In 1976 the theatre was sold to two nightclub managers who converted the house into the famous Studio 54, a flamboyant nightclub that became a celebrity hangout.

The Roundabout Theatre Company’s sensational revival of Cabaret opened in March 1998 at the Kit Kat Klub (the Henry Miller Theatre) but moved to Studio 54 in November, where it ran until January 2004. The revival of Kander and Ebb’s classic won four Tonys, including awards for the splendid performances of Natasha Richardson, Alan Cumming and Ron Rifkin. It also ran twice as long as the original 1966 production.

In 2003, Roundabout Theatre Company purchased Studio 54. Since then, the theatre has housed a Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, a Tony-nominated revival
of their Pacific Overtures, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire starring Natasha Richardson, Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet starring Gabriel Byrne and currently Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera starring Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer, Cyndi Lauper and Nelli McKay.

Theatre Information:
254 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
US

Box Office: Phone Tix: (212) 719-1300
Online at www.roundabouttheatre.org
At the box office at 254 W. 54th Street

Public Transportation:
SUBWAY: Take the N,R,W to 49th Street or 1,9 to 50th Street, walk North to 54th Street and West to the theatre; Take the C,E to 50th Street, walk North to 54th Street and East to the theatre.

Handicap Access:
ACCESS INTO THEATRE: Theatre is wheelchair accessible (on the Orchestra level only). ORCHESTRA LOCATION: Wheelchair seating is available in the Orchestra only. MEZZANINE LOCATION: Located on the second level. There are 21 steps to landing (lobby to Mezzanine) plus 11 steps to mezzanine seating. There are 2 landings with a total of 32 steps from the street level to the second level. The entrance to the second level is between the front and rear mezzazine. RESTROOM: A wheelchair accessible restroom (unisex) is located on the Orchestra level. Additional restrooms are located up 1 flight of steps to the Mezzanine lobby (not wheelchair accessible).

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