Roundabout Theatre Sells Naming Right to Former Studio 54

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In his early 20s, Todd Haimes says he wasn't cool enough even to attempt getting past the velvet rope into Studio 54, the disco-era playpen for the likes of Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Halston.

Now, five years after Haimes's nonprofit Roundabout Theatre Company paid $22.5 million for the Midtown Manhattan theater, he's selling naming rights to the house and pretty much anything inside you could stick a plaque on, including roughly 1,000 seats. Even the uncool can secure a permanent association with the late 1970s hotbed of hedonism: $1,200 buys a nameplate affixed to a rear-mezzanine seat; a prime orchestra seat goes for $15,000.

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Roundabout Theatre Sells Naming Right to Former Studio 54

Naming rights for Studio 54 itself (the theater's current resident is the Roundabout's acclaimed revival o...

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