"Studio" is coming to Showtime ...Your disco dreams have come true!

For those of us who aren't old enough to remember those decadent days of disco in NYC, the only way we can experience it is from firsthand accounts (I have a dear friend who has one story about that era, and it ends with the line "The itching lasted a month"), or from movies like the recently restored 54.

Now Showtime, whose stock has gone up considerably with us with this announcement, will be bringing those days back in a new scripted drama series called Studio, about the early days of the legendary discotheque:

"Studio centers on flamboyant co-founder Steve Rubell and starts off in the months leading to the club's April 1977 opening.

But Studio, which is in development, will be a fictional series and not a biopic or docudrama. Rubell will be the only real person featured, with the rest of the characters fictional or composites."

The show has already earned its gay credentials with out Hairspray producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron involved, as well as the possible directing skills of out A-list director Bryan Singer. Zadan and Meron jumped at the chance as soon as they heard about it:

"It really was a time that has never been seen again," Zadan said. "Socially, politically, everything about it was unique."

Added Meron: "It was the last hurrah before the era of AIDS."

They said that Rubell will be the only "real" character in the series, but I'm hoping for some cameos. Bianca Jagger looks about the same as she did back then, and maybe they can get Crispin Glover to don his Andy Warhol costume again.

And because it's on Showtime, it's sure to be "gritty and real", i.e. "lots of naked butt shots".

Anyone else looking forward to this as much as we are?