According to The New York Times, Dale DeGroff, “King Cocktail” himself, will be returning to his acting roots on October 5, when he’ll sing and tell tales in a show called “On the Town With Dale DeGroff: A Salute to Saloons, Neighborhood Bars and Legendary Cocktail Palaces.” The show will take place at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village.
The show “is an opportunity to reveal bar life in the way it naturally unfolds at the bar—telling stories,” said Mr. DeGroff, who has been known to croon a tune or two at liquor industry events and the occasional wedding. “As for the songs, ‘saloon singing’ has a long history and I, for one, want to hear more of it.”
DeGroff will lend his voice to Hank Williams’s “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “This Is So Nice (It Must Be Illegal),” by Fats Wallers and George Marion Jr., “Lulu’s Back in Town,” by Al Dubin and Harry Warren, and “Scotch and Soda,” a hit for the Kingston Trio. While singing, audience members will enjoy three cocktails—an absinthe frappe, the Major Bailey and the yuzu gimlet, and hear the stories behind each one.
The show will play a longer run at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., next May.
“This show gives me a chance to bring performing together with bartending,” Mr. DeGroff said. “They aren’t that far apart to begin with.”
