![]() ![]() Now the building is home to a craft cocktail bar called Up & Up, where the menu cordially asks gentlemen to refrain from approaching women. Maisel does her first set as a comedian at The Gaslight Cafe, which was an actual place and a rich part of New York history. ![]() Here are just a few of the stops we make during the tour. We’ll hit the key filming locations throughout the neighborhood, where TV crews captured your favorite moments on The Marvelous Mrs. ![]() Our knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the historical center of New York’s counter-culture movement, filled with underground comedy clubs and off-Broadway playhouses. Mason as Woody Guthrie and musician Matt Westin as Johnny Cash.Travel back to the 1950s with Isle of New York Tours and see Greenwich Village in a brand new way. This included Pittsburgh rock musician Clinton Clegg (of The Commonheart) as Dave Van Ronk, actress Aenya Ulke as Billie Holliday, model/actor Douglas Tjelmeland as Salvador Dali, musician J.J. Much of the cast for the film was found in Pittsburgh. His relationship with Victoria D’Angelo (played by Donna D’Errico, best known for “Baywatch”) wife of a powerful mob boss, was one of the many tightropes Mitchell walked. “Obviously, standing up to the mafia really pissed them off.” Mitchell would go to extraordinary length to protect his “kids,” as he called the Gaslight’s performers, and have their voices be heard. So, no I’m not going to pay you protection money. He’d say ‘If I give you protection money, I can’t pay my performers. They’d go to John Mitchell for ‘protection’ money. “They were trying to control New York City and the streets and the businesses that were there. “They (the mafia) felt threatened, in a way,” explains Buglione. In fact, Mitchell had to come up with creative ways to keep the doors open despite direct opposition from New York City’s police, government and mafia families. Things didn’t always go smoothly at the Gaslight Café. It was written by Pittsburgh-based lawyer and screenwriter Vincent Restauri. The film was directed by David Castro, who also plays Albert Grossman, the surly but prescient manager of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary. Having the Gaslight and John Mitchell allow these performances of all races and genders to express who they are and what they are, was kind of a powerful moment in time.” There wasn’t really a safe place for artists to go to express themselves. “The Civil Rights movement, feminism, the gay rights movement, the McCarthyism, TV blacklist. “Basically, during that time, what I’ve learned is that there were a lot of things going on,” says Buglione. To tell the world about who this guy was, is a complete honor.” People don’t know the story of John Mitchell. “But like most people, I didn’t know the story about what really went on. “I knew about the Gaslight and that it existed on MacDougal Street,” says Buglione, a native New Yorker. Soon, snapping one’s fingers was the mark of hipness to people in the know around the world. The way the building was constructed, loud clapping would carry through the air shafts and annoy the neighbors, so patrons snapped their fingers instead. On any given night, the crowd could contain luminaries like Andy Warhol, Marlene Dietrich and Salvador Dali, whose pet ocelot had his own chair. From that perch, patrons could witness the rise of the folk music movement of Bob Dylan, Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), Dave Van Ronk, Woody Guthrie, Tom Paxton and the Beat Generation poets and writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg. That spot Mitchell opened was The Gaslight Café, in a cramped, dingy, converted coal cellar. On April 7, there will be “A Night at The Gaslight Cafe … The Festival Concert” featured as the finale of the Carnegie Mellon University International Film Festival, at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty with many of the performers from the film. “Not knowing that it would change the music industry, and change the world.”īuglione (who recently finished season three of Marvel’s “Daredevil”) plays Mitchell, in an independent film, “116 MacDougal” that’s filming in late spring or early summer in Pittsburgh. “He basically got out of his car and thought, ‘This might be a great place to open up a coffee shop,’ ” says actor Dave Buglione. As legend has it, Pittsburgh used car salesman John Mitchell was taking a road trip to New York City in the late ‘50s, when he got a flat tire on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
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