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New York City, New York
West Village piano bar for Broadway sing-alongs, open since 1929
Marie's Crisis is a basement piano bar on Grove Street that's been open since 1929, on the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809 — the "Crisis" in the name nods to his Revolutionary-era pamphlets. The format is pure and unchanging: a pianist runs Broadway show tunes nightly with no mics, no stage, and no spectators. You sing along with the room or you nurse your drink on the edge of it. The place has queer roots reaching back to the 1890s, when it operated as an early gay bar decades before Stonewall, and a WPA-era etched-glass mural behind the bar still depicts the American and French Revolutions. It's cramped and cash-only, no cover with a two-drink minimum, and often packed wall-to-wall with Broadway pros and fans belting in unison. For show-tune devotees it's a bucket-list New York night, not just a bar.
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