54 Below Question

Posted: 8/9/13 at 9:51pm

I'm seeing Sierra Boggess at 54 Below on August 26th. Do the soloists tend to go out after the concerts to greet fans or do they head out right after?

[Taryn]

Posted: 8/9/13 at 10:01pm

It's really a case-by-case basis dependent on the artist. Some have come and hung out in the bar with fans for quite a while, and some don't.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/9/13 at 11:09pm

It's a great place to learn the true joy of just sitting at a table with some food and drink and allowing the performer to just perform, simply perform, in an intimate setting, without making the experience be about signing and stagedooring and grabbing a piece of the performer.

The greatest gift you can get from--and give to--Sierra Boggess is just to show up and allow her to perform. And there is no better place in New York currently to enjoy that gift than 54 Below.

Updated On: 8/10/13 at 11:09 PM

Posted: 8/9/13 at 11:36pm

Ok, I see what you're saying. Thanks for the advice!

[gchris11]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 12:33am

I so agree with Pal Joey, Just go and enjoy. 54 Below is one of my favorite places to see artists because they are there to perform and that's it. There is no stage dooring, no crazy fans, It is a class act.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 7:27am

PJ - Well said.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 9:17am

Over the years, I have had the pleasure (the privilege, actually) of seeing the following artists perform at various cabaret settings in New York:

Bette Midler at the Bottom Line
Bette Midler at the Bitter End
Barbara Cook at Reno Sweeney's
Patti LuPone at Les Mouches
Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle
Rosemary Clooney at Rainbow and Stars
Rosemary Clooney at Feinstein's
Eartha Kitt at the Cafe Carlyle
Michael Feinstein at Feinstein's
Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein at Feinstein's
Nancy LaMott at the Duplex
Nancy LaMott at Tavern on the Green
Laurie Beechman at the Ballroom
Debbie Gravitte at Some Club on 49th Street
Larry Kert at That Same Club on 49th Street
Lorna Luft at Feinstein's
Lorna Luft at Birdland
Barbara Cook at the Some Club at the NY Hilton
Barbara Cook at the Cafe Carlyle
Barbara Cook at Provincetown
Lea Delaria at Provincetown
Eartha Kitt at Provincetown
Marilyn Maye at Provincetown
Marilyn Maye at the Metropolitan Room
Gay Marshall at the Metropolitan Room
Shirley Horn at the Blue Note
Shirley Horn at Feinstein's
Jack Donahue at the Algonquin
Jack Donahue at the Blue Note
Patti LuPone at 54 Below
Lesley Uggams at 54 Below
Rebecca Luker at 54 Below
Marin Mazzie at 54 Below
Debbie Gravitte at 54 Below
Liz Callaway at 54 Below
Jenifer Lewis at 54 Below
Bob Stillman at 54 Below
Patricia Racette at 54 Below
Alison Fraser at 54 Below
Sam Harris at 54 Below
Paulo Szot at 54 Below

and others. Seeing those performers in an intimate setting enriched my life and deepened my connection to their music.

It's not about the signature. It's about what goes from their heart into yours, in an atmosphere in which you're 100 feet away from them, close enough for them to touch your soul.

Updated On: 8/10/13 at 09:17 AM

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 10:50am

Oh my goodness...you saw Patti F'ing Lupone at Les Mouches! Pal, would you please share what you can about that particular experience? Thanks...RC

[WickedRENTAwakening]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 11:05am

Enjoy the show but don't give up on the autograph! I will be going to 54 below for the first time in a few weeks. We have a similar venue in LA called Rockwell Table and Stage sometime they come out after the performance if they have friends in the audience and sometimes you have to find an exit and wait it out.

If meeting her is important don't cut your experience short. You can enjoy the show and try to meet her to. Some people don't care or understand or just hate it due to prior experience with people who do it and that is understandable. But as long as you are kind, gracious and thankful who is to say you shouldn't or it is wrong? Enjoy it while you are young after a certain age you are not going to want to stage door or ask for autographs either.

There is nothing like looking up the next morning and seeing that amazing autograph on an item you have been trying to get signed for a few months!

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 11:39am

In my opinion, it really isn't the proper setting to get autographs or pics. The few times I have been there and came in contact with anperformer I just said I enjoyed the sgow and had a very quick chat with them. That, to me, is better than a signature. I spent my birthday there last year by myself. It was after Patti's show. I was sitting in the bar area and she walk past me to go to the ladies room, nodded, smiled and said hello. Best birthday gift ever!

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 11:40am

PJ - Slightly off topic but you might enjoy it. My youngest daughter danced with a competion studio many years ago. She had a "lyrical" solo she danced to and it was to the Liz Calliway song "You There In The Back Row". Loved the song and my daughter became a Liz Callaway fan because of it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 1:11pm

You should let Liz Callaway know that happened!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 1:15pm

There is nothing like looking up the next morning and seeing that amazing autograph on an item you have been trying to get signed for a few months!

How about waking up the next morning and hear that voice still singing in your head and your heart?

That might be better than the autograph.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 1:21pm

"that amazing autograph"?

What could possibly amazing about an autograph?

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/10/13 at 1:31pm

Paljoey, that was exactly my experience with seeing Matthew Morrison at 54 Below about a month ago. I loved the show so much that I bought his newest cd and it makes me very happy every time I listen to it.