Tonight, as Darren and I walked west into the incoming ice pellets, I began regretting our decision to ever leave the warm and sheltered theatre where we had just witnessed a reading.
Now that I’m home and partially thawed, I realize this was a rash thought. The unnamed theater we were at- as lovely as it is (and I truly do love it) has a terrible bathroom. This would not make a fun snowed-in situation.
However, in the spirit of 2011’s Snowpocalypse and our company’s undying love for NYC theaters, I present a list of local spaces (in no particular order) where the Flamingos would happily hibernate through the Artic months.
1. The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. 107 Suffolk St. L.E.S. I have never seen a show here and not sweated my ass off. Plus there’s an attached beach themed bar with real sand. Steamy and classy.
2. HERE Arts Center. 145 6th Ave. Soho. This is the theatre space equivalent to your buddy’s house in high school with the cool parents who let you drink in the basement. They will let you get away with anything. They let us freaking paint each other on stage there during Finger Paint… Things could get crazy.
3. The Foxwoods Theater. 214 W. 43rd St. Midtown. Spiderman, Turn Off the Dark is there… Things could get crazy.
4. Dixon Place. 161A Chrystie St. L.E.S. Four words. Full. Service. Bar. Inside.
5. The Snapple Theatre. 1627 Broadway. Midtown. There are a lot of Snapple facts on those bathroom walls. I need more time to figure out which ones are real.
6. Regal Union Square Stadium 14. 850 Broadway. Union Square. I know this isn’t that kind of theatre. But we’ve seen some really interesting impromptu live performances there. And we gotta catch up on the Oscar nominees at some point.
7. 2econd Stage. 305 W. 43rd St. Midtown. We would just chill in the audience and make some poor technician open and close those big blinds in the house stage left on a regular basis. Those things are fantastic.
8. 3LD Art and Technology Center. 80 Greenwich St. Financial District. The location isn’t grand. Diane dubbed it “even too downtown for Erin”. But once you’re inside you get a choice of watching performances on chairs or on brightly colored throw pillows. Awesome.
9. The Chocolate Factory. 49th Ave. L.I.C. Okay, I haven’t been here yet, but this just sounds like a good place to be for obvious (and hopeful) reasons.
10. The Wild Project. 195 E 3rd St. L.E.S. This place is one of the only “green” theatres in the area. How or why it’s “green” remains an enigma. But dagnabbit, us Flamingos like to feel righteous about our hypothetical theatrical hideaways.
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