Night Fever: A Night Out in 1977
Reviewed by Ryan Luévano
Three Clubs
Through April 9
Recommended
Disco is back. Just Fix It Productions’ latest immersive story-telling experience transports audiences to a ‘70s disco club in the heart of Hollywood.
They’ve transformed the Three Clubs into a glitzy disco club complete with a light up stage, fantastic disco lighting, an electric dance floor and various backstage areas. Upon entering the space, patrons interact with an array of colorful characters such as drugged-up starlets, professional disco dancers, a euthanasic bar staff, and party-monster club kids. The actors are superb. Each character is decked out in full ‘70s attire and they have a story to tell. The interactions with the actors make for some of the best experiences of the evening.
Choreographer Stephanie Turek has created thrilling dance numbers that occur throughout the evening, executed with athletic precision and a sense joy of that’s contagious. Audience–members are encouraged to participate in some of the dance numbers. (At one point, I was doing the hustle on stage with the ensemble.)
At first glance Night Fever seems to be just a pop-up 70s disco club (though it’s unlikely that anybody paid $108/pop to get into a dance hall in those days), but the price is for a curated, fully immersive disco era experience that transports you back in time and stimulates all your senses.
This experience has two ticket options VIP and general. The VIP experience gives you early entrance, exclusive interactions with characters, special performances, a peek “behind the scenes” of the club. Within the first ten minutes of my VIP experience, I traded in my pants and shirt for a pair of booty shorts and a rag and became Kevin the bus boy for half of the evening.
If theater’s job is to transform and transport us, well, in my case, they sure did the job.
JFI Productions, The Ghost Light at The Three Clubs, 1123 Vine Street, Hlywd.; Thurs.-Sat., doors open at 8 pm, party goes until midnight. www.NightFeverLA.com
