Talk:Studio 54

Section layout

In the long term, I'm planning to improve this article to GA status. However, I noticed a few things about the arrangement of the article's sections:

• Most of the page is about history and is in chronological order, but only one section of the article (the Roundabout Theatre section) has a list of notable productions. However, there were several other notable productions at Studio 54 back when it was the Gallo Theatre/New Yorker Theatre. Should the "notable productions" section get its own level-2 header, such as in Stephen Sondheim Theatre#Notable productions and American Airlines Theatre#Notable productions? I am planning to flesh out the Roundabout section with prose.
• Meanwhile, the focus of this article needs to be clarified. Currently, the article is largely about the theater itself and the former nightclub, which is fine. But I also recently removed an unsourced section about "other tenants", which is only related to the office building within which the theater/nightclub is housed. Should we be talking about the office building as well?
• Should the "Upstairs at Studio 54" subsection be a subsection of "Design" instead of "Roundabout Theatre"?

– Epicgenius (talk) 17:49, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

I guess the long term was not as long as I thought, as I've already implemented all of the above changes. The article's focus is now on the nightclub/theater and, to another extent, the physical space. There are a few referencing issues that probably still need to be addressed, particularly the use of sources like mentalfloss.com, but overall I think the page is broad enough in coverage.Template:PbSome people may be wondering about the massive wikitext size (nearly 190 kb at last count). However, the article has about 45 kilobytes of prose size right now; per WP:TOOBIG, the page's size is all right, and it should be manageable as long as there aren't any significant additions of trivia. The article has nearly 450 references. which inflates the wikitext size greatly. The opera house, television studio, nightclub, and theater occupy the same physical space and are largely related to each other, so I have rewritten the article to cover all of these aspects. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:42, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Anachronism

"Another early show produced at Studio 52 was The Fred Waring Show, which was taped there in 1950."

This is not possible. Video tape was not in production use until the mid 50s. 2600:1700:CA10:18A0:FC54:C529:E060:6C42 (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. I've fixed this sentence now. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:58, 19 February 2023 (UTC)