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Our critic didn’t set out to see “Caroline, or Change” seven times, but amid so much uncertainty the show turned out to be just what she needed.

>> this is the scene called studio 54. >> i had been to space shots. i've been in a lot of strange places and seen a lot of strange things, but not stranger than studio 54 at the height of its popularity in the '70s. ♪ >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's escapeism. >> the front door was insane. i sometimes would just walk by to watch people not get in. that was fun, too. >> you're not shaved? there's no way. doesn't matter. listen, just go home. >> you had to be selected. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to get in. i wish we could. ♪ >> the great chic went to studio ...

♪ it was kind of a diss from before for rejecting them. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. it went from something off to freak off to freak. >> that is the probably the best that came out of studio 54, was that skong. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marys disco and it leads to hip-hop. >> it is 1979. i heard chic's good times come

Didn't care. our heads were in the clouds. we knew our parents were pissed off, but it was almost like, well, that's our parents' thing to do. we were out partying. ♪ friday night ♪ >> this was new york in 1980. drugs were different, people were different, sex was different, music was different. we just -- we took advantage of all of those things. >> sex, drugs, rock and roll. ♪ we're the kids in america whoa ♪ >> they were running amok in new york, i'll say. studio 54 was cooking. limelight, copacabana. they were hitting them all. >> new york loved us. new york loved us. >> all the ne...

>> what the discos take in and what they generate with the records, we're talking about an estimated 4 billion, with a "b," $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r&b music, to me. i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again, second half of the course, but bring that sound in, that's great. yeah. okay. one, two, three, four. ♪ tragedy ♪ >> the beegees always liked r&b, they always liked soul. i always saw them as a pop band but that always had r&b leaning...