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Studio 54

  • Theater
  • Midtown West
  • price 4 of 4
Studio 54
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Time Out says

The iconic, hedonistic nightclub from the 1970s and '80s is now run by the Roundabout Theatre Company, where it has presented a variety of musical and play revivals. Although the sex, drugs and rock & roll vibe is gone, you can still have a good time at this chic, somewhat unconventional space, which has two long full-service bars and good sight lines from either the orchestra or balcony. The Roundabout has presented several revivals of Stephen Sondheim musicals at the 1,004-seat space.

Details

Address:
254 W 54th St
New York
10019
Cross street:
between Broadway and Eighth Ave
Transport:
Subway: N, Q, R to 57th St; 1 to 50th St
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Days of Wine and Roses

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Musicals

Broadway review by Adam Feldman  Days of Wine and Roses, a musical treatment of alcoholism, raises a toast that ends in shattered glass. “Magic time” is what Joe (Brian d’Arcy James) calls drinking, and soon he has Kirsten (Kelli O’Hara) caught up in its spell. He’s a Korean War vet who works in the shadier nooks of public relations in the 1950s, greasing the social wheels for his superiors; she’s his boss’s pretty secretary, fresh from the farm and eager for danger. He teaches her to drink—she’s a quick learner—and at first the bottle’s genie grants their wishes: happiness, love, professional success. But beware the gifts of spirits.  Days of Wine and Roses reunites composer Adam Guettel with playwright Craig Lucas; as in their previous collaboration, 2005’s The Light in the Piazza, the result is ambitious, artful and musically sophisticated. But whereas Piazza delivers a sweeping romantic breadth of Florentine airs, this piece is more intimate and interior in scope, at times claustrophobic. Joe and Kirsten are very nearly the only people in this 105-minute musical who sing at all—their daughter (Tabitha Lawing) has a few lines in the second half—in keeping with the increasingly small world they share. “What about our secret language?” she wails, betrayed, when he decides to go sober. “Who will I talk to?”  Days of Wine and Roses | Photograph: Joan Marcus Guettel’s score has the feel of a chamber opera. For moments of drunken euphoria, it dabbles in cocktail jazz: Passages

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