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Broadway Disco Party! Boogie With Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber and More by David Gewirtzman

Back in the late 1970s, when the Gallo Opera House and Henry Miller's Theatre were the nightclubs Studio 54 and Xenon, respectively, disco ruled the airwaves. Thirty-five years ago today, on June 17, 1979, one attempt to bring disco to Broadway began previews at the Minskoff Theatre: a musical called Got Tu Go Disco. It played nine troubled preview performances, opened on June 25 to negative reviews, and closed e…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on June 17, 2014

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