Club 57 was a nightclub located at 57 St. Mark's Place in the East Village, New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was originally founded by Stanley Zbigniew Strychacki and enhanced by nightclub performer Ann Magnuson, Susan Hannaford, and poet Tom Scully. It was a hangout and venue for performance and visual artists and musicians, including The Cramps, Madonna, Keith Haring, Cyndi Lauper, Charles Busch, Klaus Nomi, The B-52s, RuPaul, Futura 2000, Tron von Hollywood, Kenny Scharf, Frank Holliday, John Sex, Wendy Wild, The Fall, April Palmieri, Peter Kwaloff (Sun PK), Robert Carrithers, The Fleshtones, The Fuzztones, Joey Arias, Lypsinka, Michael Musto, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Fab Five Freddy, Jacek Tylicki, and to a lesser extent, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Creation It was started in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church on St. Mark's. Ann Magnuson, who managed the club and hosted events, described it as home to: Magnuson describes a "Punk Do-It-Yourself aesthetic" which inspired events such as: A theatrical remake of "The Bad Seed" by Andy Rees Erotic Day-Glo art shows Theme parties (or "enviroteques") Putt-Putt Reggae Night (miniature golf played on a course made of refrigerator boxes designed to resemble a Jamaican shantytown) Model World of Glue Night (New York's hippest built airplane and monster models, burned them, and sniffed the epoxy) People involved Dany Johnson was the resident DJ of the club. Guest DJs included Johnny Dynell and Afrika Bambaataa. Tom Scully and Susan Hannaford ran a Monster Movie club on Tuesday nights. Drew Staub remembers that at 9:00 pm on Tuesdays, “They’d show the really worst monster movie that they could find. And everybody would scream and drink and carry on. I was the house critic of the movie.... I was known for that, and it used to gain me free admission.” (Hannaford relocated to Berlin and opened the Berlin Tea Room in August 2006.) Keith Haring used to perform from inside a fake television set, and read his "neo-dada poems" at the Club 57 Wednesday night poetry readings, and later put on evenings and exhibitions there. He curated the "Black Light Show" there, an early show of his own works (1981), and an exhibition of Kenny Scharf's hand-customized appliances. Artist Scott Covert cofounded Playhouse 57 with Andy Rees at Club 57. Besides Magnuson's input, the main contribution to the Club 57 style was from School of Visual Arts undergraduate