Disco is still alive in Las Vegas, and it's replacing a long-dormant part of the city's past.
Spiegelworld, the production company behind "OPIUM" and "ABSINTHE," announced it will open a new experience, called "DiscoShow," at The LINQ next year.
The company says DiscoShow will transport the audience back into the birth of disco, with live entertainment space, bars and a diner. Steven Hogget, choreographer and director from acclaimed stage productions like "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," will be part of the creative team.
The new venture will take over the former site of the Imperial Palace sportsbook, which has sat vacant on The LINQ property since 2014.
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Ross Mollison, Spiegelworld's founder and Impresario Extraordinaire, took a sledgehammer to the walls of the sportsbook to make way for "DiscoShow," in a reference to the infamous 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Chicago's Comiskey Park.
"Over 40 years ago, conservative factions of the sporting world swung baseball bats at disco," Mollison said in a statement. "Ironically, today disco is fighting back to make way for a fantastic celebration of the music and joyfully defiant legacy that lives on today."
DiscoShow is scheduled to open in the summer of 2024 at the new space called the Spiegelworld Glitterloft. Demolition of the old sportsbook will take place over the next few weeks to clear space for construction.
Imperial Palace operated from 1979 to 2012, when it was renamed The Quad. The property was redesigned and later renamed The LINQ two years later.
The LINQ opened its own sportsbook in 2018, but the old sportsbook from the Imperial Palace era remained on the property and was largely untouched over the years.