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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MARCH 31, 2019
THE BIG CHEESE: Queen Esther’s band gets ready for a show
inside the Crown Finish Caves last week.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
THIRST TROUPE
Boozy burlesque show comes to Brooklyn Brewery
CAVE
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ity, under the moniker
Crown Finish Caves. The
grotto holds upwards of
30,000 pounds of curdled
dairy, which can spend
up to a year fermenting in
the cool darkness 30 feet
below ground.
But once a month or
so, the couple hosts some
of the city’s most intimate
musical performances in
one of the vacant vaults.
The 70 tickets they sell
online evaporate almost
instantly, consigning
hundreds of would-be
show-goers to hopelessly
massive wait lists,
according to Brown.
A recent show featuring
jazz vocalist Queen
Esther left 860 people
on the stand-by list
feeling blue.
The music is great,
said the Crown Heights
cheese maker, but the
show’s unique and exclusive
venue provides an
undeniable draw.
“It’s an experience,”
said Brown. “You’re going
to a kind of space
you’ve never really been
to before.”
The cheese cave’s next
show, featuring fi ddlers
Sammy Lind and Nadine
Landry on May 2,
will feature the fi rst audience
chosen by lottery.
Would-be attendees can
start signing up at Crown
Finish Cave’s website on
April 15.
The cheese makers
will also raffl e off chances
to buy fi ve pairs of tickets
to the next show to customers
who buy cheese
at their monthly pop-up
sales event, held at their
Bergen Street dairy business.
Brown described
the raffl e as “the easy
way” of getting into the
shows. Interested cheeseeaters
can keep an eye on
the business’s Instagram
page to hear about the
next pop-up sale.
Catch a show at Crown
Finish Caves 925 Bergen
St. between Classon
and Franklin avenues
in Crown Heights, (718)
857–2717, www.crownfi nishcaves.
com. May 2 at 8
pm. $32.
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BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Talk about an intoxicating
performance!
A new show will combine
beer, ballet, and burlesque
into a heady brew
that satisfi es all your
senses. “Brooklyn Beerlesque,”
pouring into the
Brooklyn Brewery on April
8, will pair provocative performances
of music and
dance with compatible local
lagers, ales, and stouts,
said the show’s creator.
“We take the beer and
we’ll come up with a dance
piece closely linked with
the history and the quality
of the beer,” said David
Slone, who lives Williamsburg.
“For example, we’ll
take a Russian stout and
put on a Russian-themed
performance.”
Each ticket to the hourlong
show includes a fl ight
of beers that correspond
to the show’s six song-anddance
numbers, along with
a free full-sized pour. Slone,
who is a licensed Cicerone,
or beer expert, will also
introduce each of the intimate
numbers.
“We’ll have fi ve performers
— me as the emcee
of the event, three dancers,
and a surprise guest,” he
teased.
Together they will present
an alluring ale-powered
show for up 150 guests
in the brewery’s taproom,
which was recently remodeled
to allow a more
intimate feel, said Slone.
“Brooklyn Brewery
has revamped their tasting
room, which allows us
to make the performance
more immersive,” he said.
“We can talk about the
history and style of the
beer, talk about the performance,
and guests can ask
questions.”
The performers are
part of Slone’s theatrical
dance company the Love
Show, which often performs
across the river in
Manhattan, as well as at
Bushwick’s House of Yes.
If the debut performance at
the Williamsburg brewery
goes well, the group hopes
to make it a monthly event.
Slone fi rst planned the
boozy burlesque spectacle
for 2012, but it was shelved
when the brewery realized
that it would violate the
city’s archaic cabaret laws,
which were passed during
Prohibition. Those laws
were repealed in 2017, and
Slone is ready to give it another
shot.
“Up until recently, you
couldn’t have more than
one person moving rhythmically
in a place that
A CRAFTY SHOW: The Love Show Dancers will present a beerthemed
burlesque show at the Brooklyn Brewery on April 8.
Bryan Kwon
people from the local Sunset
Park community, and
we’ve made some wonderful
new friends,” she said.
The neighborhood was
starved for entertainment,
she said, and recent additions
to the Industry
City complex — including
Dreamland — have helped
to meet that need.
“There’s such a need for
it in this area of Brooklyn
— more cool nightlife activities,
a place where you can
walk around, maybe get a
drink,” she said.
Industry City is currently
promoting Dreamland’s
Friday night roller
disco parties as part of its
“Friday Nights at Industry
City” series, launching on
March 29, when many of the
complex’s food and drink
vendors will stay open until
10 pm, including beer
spot Big Alice Barrel Room
and the brand new Table 87
Pizza Bar.
No matter what happens
with the roller rink, Star
says that her weekly adultsonly
Dreamland Roller
Disco parties will return to
the LeFrak Center in Prospect
Park this summer.
But she hopes that both
spots will have complementary
events lighting up
the night.
“I’m planning on a different
type of event in Industry
City, something that
doesn’t compete with Prospect
Park,” she said. “Then
we’ll have the party raging
all over Brooklyn!”
Roller Disco at Dreamland
Roller Rink (233 37th
St. at Second Avenue in
Sunset Park, www.dreamlandrollerrink.
com). Fridays
at 7:30 pm. $20 ($18
in advance, includes skate
rental).
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