Vintage 1960s Basin Street East Night Club Dinner Menu 49th St. New York for Sale

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Vintage 1960s Basin Street East Night Club Dinner Menu 49th St. New York For Sale

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Vintage 1960s Basin Street East Night Club Dinner Menu 49th St. New York:
$95.00

Vintage 1960s Basin Street East Night Club Dinner Menu 49th St. & LexingtonNew York

Theodore Mann, the son of Basin Street's owner and a producer/director at Circle in the Square Theater, wrote in his memoir about a “bedraggled hippie girl” who auditioned for him for a role she did not get. “But something about her rang a chord inside me. Not much later, I read that the same actress was singing at the Bon Soir and I went to see her. Afterwards, I called my dad to say how wonderful she was, and that Basin Street should book her … Her name was Barbra Streisand.”

Streisand was booked to play the room for three weeks in 1963, sandwiched on the bill between the Benny Goodman Sextet and the Bernard Peiffer Duo. Goodman's musicians, who played for Streisand during her set, included Bobby Hackett (trumpet), Tyree Glenn (vibes and trombone), Modesto Briseno (tenor sax and flute), Jimmy Rowser (bass), and Ray Masca (drums). Streisand's music director, Peter Daniels, was on piano as usual. Reportedly, shortly after they opened, Goodman requested the order of the evening be changed. He felt Streisand’s dramatic set list would do better coming after his upbeat jazz performance.

Basin Street East live recordings.

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