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Marie may be melodramatic about her emotional state butain many waysawe're lucky it gave birth to this charming little piano bar. Heartwarming evenings spent around the piano singing Broadway tunes in between the odd cosmo or three are bound to produce a few new friends.
There's still no topping Marie's Crisis, "where showtunes come to die--but you have a helluva time while they're doing it." The long-running West Village dive, complete with an always-smudged mirror behind the bar, is a zingy neighborhood party full of every boozy theater hound in town, uniting in multiple harmony to songs from Gypsy and Les Mis. It's as if the ghost of Christmas future were showing the cast of Glee what they will someday become. House pianists including Jim Allen,... More »
Piano bars are dying faster than car dealerships, but Marie's Crisis carries on as a communal space for those who live for Cole Porter, kneel before Sondheim, and don't feel the slightest bit self-conscious about adopting a little girl's voice and chirping, "It's a Hard-Knock Life" from Annie in public (after a few cocktails, of course). The staff--pianists like Dexter, Jim, and Franca, and singing waitstaff like Maggie, Suzanne, and Andrew--keep the place as friendly and feisty as... More »
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