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HistoryEarly years
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 [1]. 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, as well as being the former home of Scepter Records. Years of operationImage:54Moon.jpg The infamous "man in the moon with a spoon" Studio 54 was operated by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. "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.
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. Roundabout Theater at Studio 54In 1998, Roundabout staged a revival of the Broadway musical Cabaret (musical), which played at the theater until 2004. Later, the theater hosted revivals of the Stephen Sondheim musicals Assassins and Pacific Overtures. In 2005, the Roundabout housed a revival of Tennessee Williams' immortal drama A Streetcar Named Desire starring John C. Reilly and Natasha Richardson. 2006 welcomed a revival of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera starring Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper. The Apple Tree, starring Kristin Chenoweth, and 110 in the Shade, starring Audra McDonald will be revived here in 2007. The second floor of the theater is still used as a nightclub on weeks when plays are not being staged; when it does so it operates under the name Upstairs at Studio 54. In recent years, singers such as Gloria Estefan and Jody Watley have performed there as a tour stop. There have also been huge, and very popular, "disco parties" held there. The most notable of these well attended nights were held in 2004 and 2005. Studio 54, Las VegasImage:Studio54LasVegas.gif The logo for Studio 54, Las Vegas. After the New York club closed down in 1995, Studio 54 moved to Las Vegas, located at the MGM Grand. Studio 54, BerlinIn January 2005, MGM announced that they were scouting for the proper location in Berlin, Germany to open Studio 54 Berlin. The project is lead by Joseph Jackson, father of Michael and Janet.[2] The plans for a second continuously-operating Studio 54 has caused fans of the original to charge that MGM is only interested in the commercialization and franchising of the Studio 54 name, and that these clubs will be nothing more than regular discotheques with the Studio 54 name. Studio 54, PragueStudio 54 is an afterhours club in Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.studio54.cz/ The name and the hedonism are all that are shared with the original studio. "Studio", as it is referred to in Prague as well, is where one would go when they haven't had enough dancing when most clubs are thinning out at 4am or so. The basement dancefloor is often packed at 7am, and the party can continue well into the next afternoon. Upstairs is a very plain restaurant. Studio 54, ViennaA disco using the Studio 54 name also exists in Vienna, Austria.[3] This locality, which has no connection to the Las Vegas establishment it shares its name and logo with, opened in December 2004.[4] Cultural impactDuring its heyday it played a formative role in the growth of disco music and nightclub culture in general. The disco was depicted in the 1998 film 54 and was the model for the club featured in the movie, The Last Days of Disco. It was parodied in the 2002 movie Austin Powers in Goldmember as Studio 69. Celebrity regulars
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