Studio 54

Studio 54

  • Theater | Broadway
  • price 4 of 4
  • Midtown West
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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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A Wonderful World

3 out of 5 stars
Broadway review by Adam Feldman  Cue the fanfare! The king has arrived on Broadway, and there will be trumpets—especially since the man in question is Louis Armstrong, the musical icon sometimes known as the King of Jazz. ”I don’t even like that title,” he demurs. “That’s just something my manager came up with.” Luckily, he has plenty of other monikers to go by: Louis, Louie, Satchmo, Pops. At the start of the new biomusical A Wonderful World, each of Armstrong’s four wives calls him by a different name, as though to suggest the interior multitudes of a performer who, in public, always wore a famously broad smile—partly as an invitation to joy but partly as a mask of comedy. The musical offers a pleasing depiction of that joy and that mask, if not of those multitudes. The outstanding James Monroe Iglehart, who plays Armstrong, has that smile down: a grin so wide and bright that, when the lights go out, you half expect it to linger behind like the Cheshire Cat’s. Iglehart has mastered Armstong’s mannerisms, too, and the churning gravel of Armstrong’s unmistakable voice (to an extent that makes you fear for his long-term vocal health); in Toni-Leslie James’s snazzy costumes and a series of first-class wigs, he summons Armstrong to life like the Genie he once played in Aladdin. But the performance goes beyond expert impersonation. Whether Armstrong is on stage or off, Iglehart infuses him with bluff, buoyant charm. “There’s been some good and some bad,” says Armstrong of his lif
  • Musicals
  • Open run
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