Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. Broadway is back, baby! Well, almost. As reported May 5, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Broadway League announced that Broadway shows can reopen at full capacity starting on Sept. 14. If you’ve been waiting for your own return to New York City and …
Sentimental Musings Of Christmas Past & Present
by Christie Grimm · December 19, 2020
My family is a bit crazy. For tens of years, some evening the week before Christmas, all of my cousins and aunts and uncles and I have gathered for a 6:30 dinner reservation at Cafe Un Deux Trois. Schlepping up to Times Square just for dinner would under any other possible circumstances be a hard no of course, save this one time a year when this basic, average meal features a silly, sentimental show.
The 6:30 reservation timing is key you see, because at 7:00, the restaurant s entire crowd turns from diners to carolers. Waiter Michael Pollard runs round the room dressed in his annual Santa ensemble (I have a tough time believing he gets a new costume all that often, if ever at all), assigning each table a number in the pièce-de-resistance of holiday songs, The Twelve Days Of Christmas.