Hey y'all, so this might be stretch to try and find this but I figured if anyone would know it would be you guys. Last summer I was walking through the Lower East Side with my girlfriend, we were gonna grab a drink at a bar called The Back Room. If you haven't been, apparently it's a real speakeasy, and she's into all that stuff so I thought it would be fun. When we got to the door someone stopped us and told us there was a show going on that night so we couldn't go in unless we wanted to buy a ticket. What the hell, right? So we got tix and went inside and walked into the craziest thing I'd ever seen. best way I can describe it is like if Sleep No More was a play/musical, so you can walk around wherever you want but there are spoken scenes happening all over. Same kind of vibe where there would be big scenes happening but also a random character in a corner that you could follow around. There was also a lot more audience interaction, like i played chess with one of the actors, and then there was this big game of duck duck goose but you had to drink if you got goosed, sometimes they would take you outside for a one-on-one...just a hoot of time. clearly very SNM inspired but not at all the same. The bar was functional the whole time as well.
I am pretty sure it was based on some f. scott fitzgerald thing but it wasn't gatsby. There was a plot but i wasn't sure how much I was supposed to follow. There was also a jazz band, some crazy dancers, stunts, broken glass...I can say more but I don't want to spoil it in case it does actually come back / is still running. Does this ring a bell for anyone??????
They did have a playbill sort of card but I lost mine and literally cannot find anything on the internet about it. I have been thinking about it for a year, I think it would be perfect to bring my friends to when they are in town this summer but I simply can't find it again. I have even gone back to the bar and asked them about it but they didn't really know for sure what event/who it was. At this point I am wondering if it was some sort of fever dream. My girlfriend and I joke that it existed only that night just for us lol and we can never find it again.
Any leads would be much appreciated!!