Marie’s Crisis: A Tribute to a NYC Downtown Show Tunes Institution

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Marie's Crisis

American Theatre Wing has produced a great tribute to the New York downtown institution that is Marie’s Crisis Cafe.

Marie's Crisis “Marie’s is the island of misfit toys for people who love show tunes,” says bartender Doug Thompson (pictured above) in the 17-minute tribute, which features staff and patrons of the underground Greenwich Village piano bar, located on the site where Thomas Paine, the English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary, died (the cafe is named for Paine’s book The American Crisis).

Anyone who has been to Marie’s Crisis knows how difficult it is not to get swept up in song upon entering, and for those who have never been and have any love for musical theatre at all, it’s a must visit.