This new structure allowed the theater guests a separate entrance through an Italian marble foyer with the new box office on the main floor. This box office was Tony De Santis office along with his theater staff.Ī dramatic, plush, thick, red-carpeted spiral staircase leading to the second-floor lobby of the new Drury Lane structure along with a new Star apartment and adjoining new DeSantis apartment was added. The new Drury Lane second-floor theater exterior pictured below was connected to the original restaurant’s first floor main dining rooms and second floor Sky Room banquet dining room allowing guests access into the new theater. The restaurant lobby remained open during years of construction then adding a new dining area in the original ground level theater setting. The original circular 180-degree flagstone waterfall separating the cocktail lounge from the restaurant lobby continued to offer guests a natural source of “White Noise” masking distracting sounds while allowing guests to permeate their minds for the feature productions either on the bandstands or the stage. ![]() ![]() The waterfall flowed down to the new cocktail lounge and dining area was called the “garden room.” What was magical about this waterfall was the double spiral staircase in front of the cascading waterfall that led into a surrounding enormous Japanese Orange Koi fish pond where patrons would drop coins from the main floor restaurant lobby.
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