The Seersucker Soiree! & The Liberty Belle Extravaganza!

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This month at Wit’s End…The Seersucker Soiree!

Live1920s jazz. Vintage cocktails. Period attire and dancing. Don’t miss the monthly Wit’s End party, Saturday, June 29th with live hot jazz from Gordon Au and the Grand Street Stompers (with Tamar Korn)!

Celebrate the social life of the Jazz Age with Wit’s End. Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired evening attire and celebrate in style! Dance to music from the era and sip classic cocktails. Dress Code: Vintage/Vintage-inspired (gentlemen coat & tie; ladies eveningwear) and, of course, seersucker!

Our hostess is the sassiest showgirl in town, Kita St Cyr! She sets the tone for a fun night of Prohibition Era revelry. Bring your friends to experience New York’s best vintage night.

Doors open at 7
free dance lessons at 8:30!

Flute Midtown, 205 W 54th St, New York, New York 10019
Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

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and for the Fourth of July, Wit’s End is proud to co-sponsor “The Liberty Belle Extravaganza!”

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The Salon, Wit’s End and The Champagne Riot present
THE LIBERTY BELLE EXTRAVAGANZA
A Vintage Fourth of July Rooftop Spectacular This year, we’ll be lighting up not one, but TWO of NYC’s hottest rooftops  with the finest in hot music, vintage entertainment and raucous patriotic revelry!

We’ve also partnered with Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing, for even more dancing, & live big band music!

Info is available at http://libertybelleextravaganza.com/index2.html

May 25 Party to Feature Svetlana Shmulyian

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Are you looking for a dose of the vintage lifestyle in May that goes beyond a movie theatre? This is your event! Live1920s jazz. Vintage cocktails. Period attire and dancing. Don’t miss the monthly Wit’s End party, Saturday, May 25, featuring Svetlana Shmulyian and the Delancey Five. The party is at Flute Midtown. Advance tickets are $12 and are available now.

May 25 2013 Party

May 25 2013 Party

Celebrate the social life of the Jazz Age with Wit’s End. Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired evening attire and celebrate in style! Dance to music from the era and sip classic cocktails. Dress Code: Vintage/Vintage-inspired (gentlemen coat & tie; ladies eveningwear).

Our hostess is the sassiest showgirl in town, Kita St Cyr! She sets the tone for a fun night of Prohibition Era revelry. Bring your friends to experience New York’s best vintage night.

Svetlana Shmulyian and the Delancey Five have been earning rave reviews from premier NYC jazz clubs to the underground world of subway and secret speakeasy parties. They have been called “very sweet & naughty” (Jazzlives), “energetic” (Wall Street Journal), “delightful” (WRHU Jazz Radio), and a cinematically handsome Golden Age-inspired sextet. Rocking hard swinging 20s-40s jazz standards as well as charismatic originals, and featuring Svetlana’s sultry “made for jazz” (streetcredmusic) vocals backed by the band members’ inspired harmonizing and virtuoso instrumentals – their tunes are so infectious, they’ll sweep you off your feet and steal your heart away.

Led by energetic vocalist Svetlana Shmulyian, the quintet co-stars Adrian Cunningham on clarinet and tenor (shining on “Lester Leaps In”) while Dalton Ridenhour piano work ensures that the group splits the difference between Fat Waller’s Rhythm and Counts Basie’s Kansas City Five” (Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal, 9.15.12) and also features “the native guitar wizard” (JazzLive) Ted Gottsegen, Rob Garcia, “…one of New York’s great jazz drummers and composers.” (Capital New York) and “a prime mover in the current Brooklyn jazz scene…” (Time Out-New York) and powerful and in-demand New York City bassist Brandi Disterheft (“She has the same lope or rhythmical pulse as my late bass player, Ray Brown. She is what we call serious.” – Oscar Peterson). Listen to Baby It’s Cold Outside!

Doors open at 7
free dance lessons at 8:30!
Advance tickets available via TicketWeb
Flute Midtown, 205 W 54th St, New York, New York 10019
Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

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Wit’s End, the Hot Sardines, and The Great Gatsby!

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Announcing a special addition to the Wit’s End: Vintage Nouveau party on the  27th – THE GREAT GATSBY! A representative will be on hand from the new film adaptation to give away  t-shirts, posters, drink shakers and more!

From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann  comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great  Gatsby.  The filmmaker created his own distinctive visual interpretation of the  classic story, bringing the period to life in a way that has never been seen  before. Academy Award® nominee DiCaprio (“Django Unchained,” “Aviator”) plays  Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire starring as Nick Carraway; and Oscar® nominee  Carey Mulligan (“An Education”) and Joel Edgerton as Daisy and Tom Buchanan. In theaters May 10.           www.thegreatgatsbymovie.com

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Hot Sardines Return April 27

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The Hot Sardines

The Hot Sardines

We are happy to have one of the top foot-stomping jazz bands on the map coming back to Wit’s End! The Hot Sardines will be performing their special brand of liquor-drinking music from the 1920s to the 1940s at Flute Midtown for the monthly Wit’s End party, Saturday, April 27. Advance tickets are $12 and still available.

This month is our 2nd annual Vintage Nouveu party! Celebrate the social life of the Jazz Age with Wit’s End. Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired evening attire and celebrate in style! Dance to music from the era and sip classic cocktails. Dress Code: Vintage/Vintage-inspired (gentlemen coat & tie; ladies eveningwear).

Our hostess is the sassiest showgirl it town, Kita St Cyr!

Doors: 7 pm. Free dance lesson at 8:30 pm. Tickets: $12 each.

Flute Midtown, 205 W. 54th Street. Reserve a table Tel. 212-265-5169.

Lizzie Thomas to Play Bootlegger’s Social March 30

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Lizzie Thomas

Lizzie Thomas

Saturday, March 30th in NYC, come to Wit’s End and dance and drink Prohibition era cocktails while you enjoy the live hot sounds of Lizzie Thomas! This month is the annual Bootlegger’s Social.

Join us as we begin our fifth year of monthly speakeasy evenings, providing a different Prohibition era cocktails and a live hot jazz band at each party in an authentic 1920s speakeasy (Texas Guinan’s Club Intime, now at Flute Midtown, 205 W. 54th Street at Broadway)!

Our lovely hostess is burlesque showgirl Kita St Cyr!

Our co-sponsor is the Dorothy Parker Society, the drinking club with a book problem.

Dress code: Jacket and tie, vintage or vintage-inspired, Jazz Age, evening wear, cocktail attire and of course, seasonal! 1920s, 30s and 40s vintage is encouraged!

Just $12 at the door! Doors open at 7 and take a free dance lesson at 8:30! Advance tickets on sale now via TicketWeb.

Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

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Dandy Wellington Advance Tickets Available

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Dandy Wellington

Dandy Wellington (Photo © Jane Kratochvil)

The Jazz Age is calling all flappers & bootleggers! Dandy Wellington and His Band will be performing jazz, blues and American popular song from the 1920s to the 1940s at Flute Midtown for the monthly Wit’s End party, Saturday, Feb. 23rd. Advance tickets are $12 and still available.

This month is our 4th Anniversary party! Celebrate the social life of the Jazz Age with Wit’s End. Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired evening attire and celebrate in style! Dance to music from the era and sip classic cocktails. Dress Code: Vintage/Vintage-inspired (gentlemen coat & tie; ladies eveningwear).

Our hostess is the showgirl with the biggest smile around, Kita St Cyr!

Doors: 7 pm. Free dance lesson at 8:30 pm. Tickets: $12 each.

Flute Midtown, 205 W. 54th Street. Reserve a table Tel. 212-265-5169.

Diane Naegel Scholarship Winner in the News

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Sarita Naegel, the mom of the late Wit’s End founder, Diane Naegel, posted an update about the fashion student who won a memorial scholarship created in Diane’s memory. Mary Helen Boeddeker won last year and has her own apparel business. Sarita says:

Meet the Diane Naegel Memorial scholarship winner from 2012! She’s a wonderful gal, and exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit Diane had too. This year we will have another award winner at the annual University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Fashion Show on April 26th. I thought the wonderful friends and family who donated to her scholarship fund would enjoy seeing how Mary Helen is doing.

Thanks to all for keeping Diane’s spirit alive, no matter what way you do it.

January 2013 Party Photos

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We were so wrecked from the January party with the Hot Sardines and Kita St. Cyr, it took us awhile to get the photos together! What a party! We hope to repeat the good times on Saturday, Feb. 23, with Dandy Wellington!

January 2013 Photo Gallery

Fat Tuesday Vintage Party for the Gin Lovers

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Gin Lovers InviteLooking for a fun, vintage Fat Tuesday party? Wit’s End is putting the word out that author Jamie Brenner is having a book release party for her debut novel The Gin Lovers (St. Martin’s Press) on Tuesday at Madame X. Reviewers are hailing the book as Downton Abbey meets 50 Shades set in 1920s Manhattan.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6-9 p.m.
Madame X
Address: 94 W Houston St, New York, NY 10012

The party will be a speakeasy type affair with period music, drink specials, and prizes for best vintage attire.

From the publisher about The Gin Lovers:

It’s 1925, and the Victorian era with its confining morals is all but dead. Unfortunately, for New York socialite Charlotte Delacorte, the scandalous flapper revolution is little more than a headline in the tabloids. Living with her rigid and controlling husband William, her Fifth Avenue townhouse is a gilded cage. But when William’s rebellious younger sister, the beautiful and brash Mae, comes to live with them after the death of their mother, Charlotte finds entrée to a world beyond her wildest dreams – and a handsome and mysterious stranger whom she imagines is as confident in the bedroom as he is behind the bar of his forbidden speakeasy.

Jamie Brenner, under the pen name Logan Belle, wrote the erotic trilogy Blue Angel (Kensington), followed by the erotic romance Bettie Page Presents: The Librarian (Simon & Schuster/PocketStar).

Wit’s End: 4th Anniversary Party with Dandy Wellington!

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A night not to pass up! Wit’s End is proud to bring you Dandy Wellington and His Band (dandywellingtown.com). The date is Saturday, Feb 23. The place is Flute, Midtwon, 205 W. 54th Street (at Broadway). The doors open at 7.
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Celebrate 4 years of the best monthly vintage party in New York! Our hostess is burlesque showgirl Kita St Cyr! (https://twitter.com/kitastcyr)

We will of course serve Prohibition era cocktails. Take a free dance lesson at 8:30.

Our co-sponsor is the Dorothy Parker Society (dorothyparker.com), the drinking club with a book problem.

Dress code: Jacket and tie, vintage or vintage-inspired, Jazz Age, evening wear, cocktail attire and of course, seasonal! 1920s, 30s and 40s vintage is encouraged!

Just $12 at the door or in advance via TicketWeb: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3366464

Table reservations are available and encouraged; telephone Flute Midtown reservation line at 212.265.5169 to reserve a table.

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