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Suruthi Bala

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221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

It's like if you go to an event and they haven't got a liquor license here and they're just like, it's a tombola.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Do you want to buy a raffle ticket?

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ShortHand: Studio 54

Oh, you win a drink.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

What drink do you want?

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ShortHand: Studio 54

Can you live up to the hype?

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Steve sadly died of AIDS in 1989.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

He didn't live to see the redemption of the club that put him in prison or witness it hailed as the touchstone of the disco era.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

And the plot, 254 West 54th Street, well, it stood empty until 1998, when the Roundabout Theatre Company transformed it into the Kit Kat Club for their production of Cabaret, starring Neil Patrick Harris.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Boo!

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ShortHand: Studio 54

Hate that guy.

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ShortHand: Studio 54

Terrible man.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Look it up.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

As Ian Schrager himself said, no one knows what the definition of magic is, but we all know it when we walk into a place and it has that electricity in the air.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

And when you walked into Studio 54, you felt it.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

When he was asked if it was all worth it, Ian Schrager said it certainly was, but that he would never do it again.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

And he was right, because no one else has ever come close.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Exactly.

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ShortHand: Studio 54

You got it, Em.

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ShortHand: Studio 54

Goodbye.

RedHanded
ShortHand: Studio 54

Goodbye.