Where to sit
The Rocky Horror Show seating chart — Studio 54
A plain-language read of the Studio 54 for The Rocky Horror Show. It gives facts from the sources we could read; any view of our own is labelled as ours.
About the venue
- Theatre
- Studio 54
- Address
- 254 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019
- Neighborhood
- Theater District
- Capacity
- 1,006 seats
- Operator
- Roundabout Theatre Company
Hosting The Rocky Horror Show through February 28, 2027.
The short version
Studio 54 opened in 1927 as the Gallo Opera House; CBS bought it in 1942, and after CBS sold it in the late 1970s it became Studio 54, the disco-era nightclub. The club closed in 1986 and the space hosted rock concerts until the late 1980s; it then stood empty until 1998, when Roundabout moved its production of Cabaret in (Roundabout Theatre Company's page). Roundabout's figures put 519 of its 1,006 seats in the orchestra and 487 in the mezzanine, and there is no elevator to the mezzanine. In our view, centre orchestra is the seat to want for being close to the cast, the front of the mezzanine is worth pricing against it, and the building's history is part of the night out.
Section by section
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Orchestra
519 seats (Roundabout's figures). In our view, centre orchestra is the seat to want for being close to the cast.
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Mezzanine
487 seats, with no elevator up to it (Roundabout's figures and access notes). In our view, the front rows are worth pricing against centre orchestra, and the back rows are the place to look when price matters more than closeness.
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