Photos: Tommy Tune's FIFTY FOUR FOREVER Bound for LA, Then Broadway?

Conceived and directed by Tony-winner Tommy Tune and written by Mark Saltzman, FIFTY FOUR FOREVER, received its world premiere at The University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre in November of 2011. The associate director and choreographer of the production was David Warren Gibson.

In today's NY Post, Michael Riedel writes that "When Tune returns from London, he heads to Los Angeles to work on a new musical about Studio 54 called 'Fifty Four Forever.'...

Tune has, well, fine-tuned the show since Miami, and will open it in Los Angeles in the fall. The Nederlanders are quiet backers, and if "Fifty Four Forever" is well-received, look for its disco ball to twirl above Broadway next spring, just in time, perhaps, to upend next year's Tony Award race."

Check out photos from that first production below!

Once upon a time in New York City, there was a magical disco that everyone clamored to get into. Passing through Studio 54's velvet ropes were the world's most famous stars, politicians, and athletes - the glitterati of the 1980s.

In 1965, Tune made his Broadway debut as a performer in the musical Baker Street. His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1978. He has gone on to direct or choreograph, or both, some eight Broadway musicals. He directed a new musical titled Turn of the Century, which premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on September 19, 2008 and closed on November 2, 2008.

Off-Broadway, Tune has directed The Club and Cloud Nine. Tune toured the United States in The Sherman Brothers musical Busker Alley in 1994-1995 and in the stage adaptation of the film Dr. Doolittle in 2006. Tune is the only person to win Tony Awards in the same categories (Best Choreography and Best Direction of a Musical) in consecutive years (1990 and 1991), and the first to win in four different categories. He has won nine Tony Awards.

Tune's film credits include Hello, Dolly! (1969) and The Boy Friend with Twiggy (1971). Tune released his first record album, Slow Dancing, in 1997 on the RCA label, featuring a collection of his favorite romantic ballads. Tune has been performing in his musical revue, Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance, in Boston in April 2008 and continuing in various venues from Bethesda, Maryland in January 2009 to California in February 2009.

Photo Credit: University of Miami/Kent Lantaff