Stephen Trask & Rick Elice Workshop New Studio 54-Set Musical This Ain't No Disco!

Hedwig and the Angry Inch composer Stephen Trask is at work on a new musical titled This Ain’t No Disco!, set during the heyday of Studio 54. According to the New York Post, a workshop helmed by Trip Cullman recently took place at the Atlantic Theater Company.

The show, featuring a book by Rick Elice (who is also working on the Cher musical), follows a couple from Queens who enter the celebrity and drug-filled world of Studio 54. As they become lost in the new environment, they encounter several familiar faces, including the nightclub’s co-owner Steve Rubell and an Andy Warhol-esque artist.

The cast of the workshop included Lindsay Mendez and Gideon Glick, who starred together in the Broadway-bound Significant Other, as well as Michael Esper. No word yet on any future stagings of the new musical.

As reported previously, another disco musical is currently in the works: a Donna Summer bio-musical with Jersey Boys team Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo directing and choreographing, respectively.