Tommy Tune Bringing Studio 54 to the Masses

If you're wondering what would get me excited for a Broadway show, look no further. The New York Times reports that Tommy Tune is down at the University of Miami putting the finishing touches on his new musical, “Fifty Four Forever,” a "valentine to the Studio 54 nightclub where he often mixed with Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli and other chic demigods of the 1970s."

Patrick Healy writes:

The new musical’s plot follows the rise and fall of Steve Rubell, the nightlife impresario who made Studio 54 into a stardust Valhalla, where hordes of people waited hopefully on the rope line as boldface names waltzed past the Rubell bouncers. Mr. Tune has set the show on a 42-foot, red-carpeted runway where fast-paced scenes spin out: An early one shows Rubell’s mother, outfitted in red-sequined hair rollers, kvetching and later boogying with him in their Brooklyn home, while many other moments involve Rubell’s cavorting in the club with Liza, Andy, Halston and Truman, as well as that nightspot’s manic D.J. and shirtless boy toys. For the last year Mr. Tune has been developing this disco-standards show -- which includes anthems like “Y.M.C.A.” and “Stayin’ Alive” -- with an unusual team of collaborators, the university’s theater arts department and its corps of undergraduate actors, many of whom were born after his heyday, which included nine Tonys between 1974 and 1991.

I'm in the bathroom getting ready now. Having just attended the star-studded Studio 54 reunion, let it suffice to say I'm ready for another bump!

Adorable Kyle Axman plays the troubled Steve Rubell