Marie's Crisis Café

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"You were probably meant to be on Broadway. But, due to circumstances and/or your singing voice, you wound up bounty hunting or thinking up ad campaigns for dog food companies. If you’d like the opportunity to sing show tunes before an audience, go to Marie’s Crisis. Every night, this divey little basement bar in the West Village has a pianist who plays various songs from musicals, and everyone’s invited to sing along. You never know what song is coming up, so it helps to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything ever performed on Broadway, but you can always just request a song or hang out at a table in the corner and enjoy the feeling of being in a room where no one cares how well they’re singing." - bryan kim