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The Scene, also known as "Steve Paul's The Scene", was located in the basement of 301 West 46th Street, in New York's Theater District. Steve Paul had started his entertainment career as a publicist for the Peppermint Lounge. Paul opened the club in 1964, initially as a club for actors, musicians and theatre workers from Broadway. At the time ...
The Yale Club of New York City (1897), the largest private club in the world, [5] which awarded the Heisman Trophy in 2002 and 2003; The Brook (1903) The Century Association (1847) The Coffee House Club (1914) [349] [350] The Chemists' Club (1898–1970), lost clubhouse, continues to exist as an "inner club" of the Penn Club of New York City ...
Swango is a dance revue conceived and choreographed by Mariela Franganillo and Robert Royston, with a script by Rupert Holmes and a potpourri of tango and swing music. The original production played in the off-Broadway Swing 46 jazz club in 2002 [1] and moved to the Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack, New York, in 2003. It received mixed reviews.
The first supper club in the United States was established in Beverly Hills, California, by Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native Lawrence Frank. [3] Supper clubs became popular during the 1930s and 1940s, although some establishments that later became supper clubs had previously gained notoriety as prohibition roadhouses.
Minton's original owner, Henry Minton, was known in Harlem for being the first ever black delegate to the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. [3] In addition, he had been the manager of the Rhythm Club, in Harlem, in the early part of the 1930s, a venue which Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Earl Hines frequented. [4]
Chicago-based comic Whitney Chitwood recorded her 2019 album The Bakery Case live at the Green Mill; the album reached No. 9 on the Billboard comedy chart [11] and was the first comedy album to be recorded at the club. [12] Recently the Green Mill hosts performers ranging from jazz quartets to swing orchestras who frequently play to a packed ...
Plato's Retreat was a heterosexual swingers' club catering to couples. From 1977 until 1985 it operated in two locations in Manhattan, New York City, United States.The first was the former location of the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse that also showcased artists who went on to great success including Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, and Melissa Manchester.
Larry Levenson was an American club owner who founded the swingers club Plato's Retreat. [1] [2] [3] [4]Levenson was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1981 for tax evasion.