Driving back from a meeting with Raffles/Fairmont CEO Omer Acar on Monday, I passed a theatre on 50th Street – New World Stages – showing “Rolling Thunder”.
I stopped the Uber and checked it out. New World Stages, an off-Broadway theatre with five – yes five stages showing live plays / musicals – on the site of the Worldwide Plaza. Five live shows with a cool, expansive common lobby and bars – like a Cineplex except live performing Arts.
Irresistible.
And Rolling Thunder.
Not a film of the Bob Dylan 1975 Tour/Review which I loved – but a live concert / documentary / review / play, featuring huge 60’s songs performed against the backdrop of Vietnam – war/peace, political/social unrest.
Rolling Thunder. VNM. A rock journey.
Trudy was up for it.
We scored primo seats – centre stage, six rows in on Thursday night.
We stumbled upon our new favourite low-key hidden gem French restaurant. No more than 50 yards from the New World Stages.
Visit the website: https://www.cheznapoleon.com. It’s classic.
Quirky, authentic.
Founded in 1982 by legendary French chef Marguerite Bruno. Stern, traditional, dedicated and quietly magnificent!
Nothing much has changed since 1982.
Not the menu. Not the décor. Not the Gothic bartender. Not the standards. Not the attitude.
Trudy had escargots and Cuisses de Grenouilles (of course!). I had escargots and Truite Meunière.
It felt like 1982 in the restaurant.
And 1969 in the theatre.
And it all ended with a Big Summer of Love singalong in the theatre!!
Only in New York.
And the music. Brilliant band. Great Musical Director and terrific vocalists.
- “All Along the Watchtower”
- “Black Magic Woman”
- “Born to be Wild”
- “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
- “Eve of Destruction”
- “Get Together”
- “Gimme Shelter”
- “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
- “Help Me Make It Through The Night”
- “House of The Rising Sun”
- “Killing Me Softly With His Song”
- “The Letter”
- “Magic Carpet Ride”
- “Nowhere to Run”
- “People Get Ready”
- “War”
- “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”
Let Freedom Ring!
