And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: April 26th, 1977, 38 years ago today ... the day nightclub impressarios Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager opened a club called Studio 54 in midtown ...

Studio 54 opened as the Gallo Opera Theatre in 1927. The venue housed Antoinette Perry in Sophocles’ Electra. It was transformed into the famed disco Studio 54 in 1977 and later restored and returned ...

Studio 54 was built in 1927 as The Gallo and was intended to house opera productions. It was the first of multiple names given to the theater, some of which include the legitimate theater The New ...