The dance moves are legendary, the man in the white suit a star, and the movie that brought Bay Ridge , Brooklyn, the disco revolution and John Travolta to the height of cinematic fame, “Saturday Night Fever,” is 30 years old.
    
But in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night, it was 1977 all over again as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screened the movie   to a packed crowd with Travolta and other cast members in the house.

Screams of delight greeted the first glimpse of Tony Manero (Travolta) strutting down a Bay Ridge street and giving the eye to passing girls. Cat-calls accompanied images of a much-younger, thinner and polyester-clad Travolta blowing his hair dry in front of the mirror, and flexing in his skivvies.
     
The audience gave the former disco heartthrob a standing ovation for the role that garnered him an Academy Award nomination. The actor, who shot to worldwide stardom after the film’s release, said he thinks of his life as “before Saturday Night Fever and my life after.”

“I felt that I was doing a little art film, to be honest,” Travolta said. “I thought it would be a nice stepping-stone to other projects.”

Cast members Donna Pescow, who played spurned dance partner Annette, and actors Joseph Cali, Barry Miller  and Paul Pape , who played Manero’s buddies, joined Travolta onstage for their first reunion since the movie was released.