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Roseland Theater Tickets Information
Roseland Theater
The Roseland Ballroom, or simply the Roseland Dance City, is a catering hall/music venue/dance hall which has been transformed into an ice skating rink with a colorful ballroom dancing pedigree in New York City's theatre district on West 52nd Street.
The venue has an accommodation for 3,200 people standing, plus an additional 300 people upstairs; 2,500 for a dance party; between 1,500 and 1,800 in theatre style and 800-1,000 for a sit-down dinner.
This idiosyncratic venue has hosted all sorts of events; from a Hillary Clinton’s birthday party to annual gay circuit parties to movie premieres to musical performances from all sorts as well as performances by Madonna, Paul McCartney, Paul Van Dyk, Nirvana, Phish and the Rolling Stones.
At the back of the venue is West 53rd Street and the Ed Sullivan Theater. It is seen nearly every time that comedian David Letterman has outside antics during taping of the Late Show with David Letterman beside his theater.
Originally, Roseland was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1917 by Louis Brecker with financing by Frank Yuengling belonging to the D. G. Yuengling & Son beer family.
In 1919m the venue was relocated to 1658 Broadway at 51st Street in New York. It was a "whites only" dance club called the "home of refined dancing" which was identified for the big band groups who played there starting with Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours.
Orchestras which have so far performed in the venue include Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. The appearance by Count Basie was a defining moment in his profession and an infiltration in the all white atmosphere of the club. One of his songs was to be the Roseland Shuffle.
Brecker was to make Marathon dancing famous and gain considerable reputation until it was barred, staged female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly-proclaimed jazz weddings with couples who met at the club.
With the passage of time, Brecker attempted to celebrate the dancing more by having hostesses dance for $11 per dance or $1.50 a half-hour with bouncers in tuxedos, responsible to maintain order and discipline. It was to work its way into stories by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara.
In 1956, the original New York Roseland was demolished and relocated to its new location i.e., on West 52nd in a building that Brecker previously had converted from an ice skating rink to a roller skating rink.
Time Magazine cited its opening decor in the following words "purple-and-cerise tentlike décor that creates a definite harem effect."
Before Brecker relocated the venue, the 52nd Street building had its own history and prestige.
It was built in 1922 at a cost of $800,000 by the Iceland ice skating franchise. On November 29, 1922, nearly thousand skaters showed up the inaugural night at the 80 by 200 foot rink. In 1932, Iceland went penniless and the rink opened as the Gay Blades Ice Rink.
In the 1950s, it was taken over by Brecker, who transformed it into roller skating. Brecker maintained its ballroom dancing style banning rock and roll and disco.
In 1981, Brecker sold the building. Under the new owners, the Roseland held regularly scheduled "disco nights" which gave rise to a period when it was thought to be a hazardous venue and neighborhood menace.
In 1984 a teenager was shot to death on the dance floor.
In 1990 a Utah tourist Brian Watkins was murdered in the subway and four of the eight suspects were found partying at the Roseland. Consequently Roseland was forced to eliminate the tradition of regularly scheduled "disco nights."
Its low rise 3-story structure on top of the dance floor in the center of midtown Manhattan has stimulated anxiety over it being torn down for redevelopment. In 1996 the new proprietor Laurence Ginsburg filed plans to demolish the venue and restore it with a 42-story, 459-unit apartment building. According to Ginsburg’s spokesman the filing was to "beat a deadline for new, more stringent earthquake codes, which went into effect earlier" in 1996. The interior space has been consequently modernized and furbished.
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