The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St
New York, NY 10002-2214
www.slipperroom.com
Some nights, this Lower East Side bar is just an unremarkable place to
meet up with friends and share a few drinks. (There isn’t even draft
beer.) But three nights a week, the joint comes alive with raunchy
burlesque acts filled with crass jokes and glittering with pasties.
Sightlines to the small stage at back can kind of suck which leaves
some customers standing on the high-backed booths to get an eyeful of
the young beauties (and the occasional stocky guy) performing in often
bizarre costumes to equally peculiar music. Red-tinted lights may
allude to Amsterdam, but this place is classier than that. There must
be a reason why burlesque has gone out of fashion, but after a trip to
the Slipper Room, you still won’t know the answer.