melharfol, Glad to hear that Ray is doing well. Has he seen Crystal Blue recently? I don’t know when I’ll be back to NYC for a visit. Got some health issues going on now and until I can get them resolved I have to stay close to home. Hopefully sometime this summer I can come in for a few days.
No such thing as a free woman. One way or another we end up paying for it. I too broke up last year after 20 years. I will be paying once a month until my kids turn 21.
While I was in the know about alot of what went on behind the scenes of the Melody I don’t know how Dominique made her money. I’m pretty sure that Bob didn’t leave her money because he had a wife and kids living in NJ. Its always possible that some of the regulars left her money, Pie included. I had heard that Dominique invested in real estate but also don’t know for sure.
There are some yahoo groups that hold mardi gras type parties in NYC and the parties are usually held in areas that even the cops are too afraid to go into. Check out these two yahoo groups: FunInNYC and apartmentnyc.
Yes Madeline Droege is her real name. I’ve known that for at least 25 years. She has a houses in Brooklyn and in Orient which is way out in Suffolk Co. Droege is a Dutch name.
‘Anything goes'
The old Harmony Theater burlesque club in Tribeca could be staging a comeback.
Madeline Droege, who ran the Harmony and still owns its 279 Church St. building, posted an online ad soliciting renters for the ground floor and basement space.
“‘Anything goes’ uses include bar/night spot/party space/restaurant/live theater/store,” she wrote in the ad. She is asking $10,000 a month for the 3,750 square feet.
Separately, Droege, a k a Madeline D'Anthony, also has a Web site advertising the space as the Fig Leaf Theater and Pink Fig juice and raw food snack bar. The site offers the theater space for rent for themed parties and events, and promises, “Coming soon.”
Droege did not return calls for comment, but one source said she had approached at least one burlesque group about performing in the space. Another source said costumed people turned up at the building on a recent night looking for an S&M party, and a sign posted on the front door told them to go to a different location.
The city closed down the original Harmony Theater in 1998, but burlesque dancing crept back in. From 2006 to 2008, during nonprofit Collective:Unconscious’s lease of the space, a group called Pinchbottom held monthly shows, said a Pinch performer and producer who goes by the name Jonny Porkpie.
A burst sewer pipe forced Collective:Unconscious to leave in the middle of last summer, and the space appears to have been empty since then. Local residents, who long objected to the stripping, likely prefer it that way, but they recently got wind of Droege’s plans, and they are not happy. Several people from the area turned up at a Community Board 1 meeting last week to urge the board to reject a liquor license for the space, should Droege choose to seek one.
I found this today while surfing the internet. It’s from last summer and talks about Dominique’s plan for the “Harmony” as she still owns the building on Church Street.
Oh no, he isn’t a stalker. They say hello and what not when their paths cross. He lives in the neighborhood and at 58 he is still good looking and all the Melody girls liked him.
A friend of mine sses Susan Nero every now and then riding a bike around First Ave & E. 21st Street. He’s talked with her and see has a straight job and put her past behind her. Next time I’m in NYC I’ll ask him more about it.
I never saw George trying to fuck the girls. His brother Ray however did fuck some of the girls. There was a fire exit door in the lobby that led to nice clean bathrooms and a room with a mattress. I remember one night on a Fri or Sat, Ray took Inga ( an older blonde) who must’ve been in her late 30’s then into that room and fucked her. Do you remember Sapphire? She was I think Puerto Rican, a bit heavy but she was cute. She wanted me to take her to a hotel and George Gibson took me aside and warned me not to go because she had a veneral disease. He probably had done her and caught something from her. Needless to say I took his advice.
Back when Church Street was open Dominique had a website harmonytheatre.com and the domain was a local address in NYC on First Ave somewhere near 14th street. I recognized where it was because I grew up in that neighborhood. It’s where I spent the first half of my life. The website IIRC had pics of the girls and Dominique sold her videos there. I wanted to buy some but I wasn’t about to put money in her pocket because you know she wasn’t giving the girls any money from the sales. I remember her asking Kiki to make a video and when she refused she fired her. I know there is a way to find old websites and see them as they were. I’m going to figure this out and if I can do it I’ll copy and paste here. BTW, the old harmony website is now some sort of jewish conspiracy site. Go figure!
I checked the web domain and it is registered in Madiera which is in Portugal. The website claims that the owner of the Harmony was a woman who previously owner of the Paris Theatre ( Formerly The Follies). It says she danced like a cat. Now Dominique was anything but a cat and the girls hated her. I wonder who put this bullshit on the internet? There is a topless pic of a girl on the site who I do not recognize as well as a pic of a turnstyle. IIRC there was no turnstyle at the Melody/Harmony between 1978 & 1985. The website itself sells Christmas wreaths and has a number to place an order which is 1-800-555-1212 and that is a number for directory assistance for toll free listings. Perhaps this is someone’s idea of an April Fool’s Joke.
What do you guys think?
Maybe Dominique is behind that other website. If you can post the url we can check to see who the registered owner is. Could also be someone too young to know about Bob Anthony and the Melody’s history who didn’t fact check.
STARSHINE BURLESQUE
Little Brooklyn and Creamy Stevens bring you Starshine Burlesque.
The cutting edge in burlesque takes it off every Thursday night at Rififi. Enjoy a cocktail before the show as go-go sensations bump and grind to the irresistible sounds of the Meat Mistress' turntable. On stage, in the Backroom Starshine turns up the heat with a variety show of eye-popping striptease, magic, acrobatics, and vaudevillian antics. A different show every week of comedy, music, dance and good old fashioned burly-Q!
RiFiFi (Cinema Classics)
332 East 11th Street at 1st Avenue
Every Thursday- 10:15ish pm $5
Found this on Yahoo tonight. brooklyngirl.com for different shows/performers all over NYC.
Tony, You have the right page. I am a fan too but my pic isn’t posted. Maybe Dominique is behind that under construction website. There are ways to find out who the webmaster/mistess is. Put the link up here so I can check it out. Whoever is behind this site is showing no respect for Bob Anthony IMHO.
There is a page on Facebook dedicated to the Melody. It’s called Melody/Harmony Theatre NYC fan page. Put the word out to all the guys/girls who were regulars up there.
Tony, I agree with you saying Dominique was a pig. IIRC she was the first strip club owner to charge the girls to work and then other strip clubs started doing it. Dominique had an apartment very close to the Melody on 49th streetbetween 6th & 7th Ave. Bob would go to her place in the afternoons. I don’t know what he saw in her. She was a wildebeast. Bob must have been out of his frikken mind to have made her a partner. I know for a fact that Jerry hated her. One of these days I’ll post how Rose fucked me over.
As far as the old guys in the lounge went, I thought Manny Rosen to be a tad arrogant at times. Basically the only ones I liked were Seymour, (he had season tickets to the Rangers) and I used to buy his extra tickets to alot of the games. I also liked the Professor who used to work the box office weekday afternoons. He had a pompadour and no teeth. We used to have to protect him from Augie and old guy who Bob had banned from the theatre. He would always threaten Professor when he would walk to the subway station after work. MelHarFol there used to be a pretty brunette that worked days at Lucky Lady, her name was Kelly. Do you remember her? She was really sweet and had the looks and personality of the girl you wish lived next door to you! As far as the Melody ladies one of my favorites was Anette Heinz. I don’t think I ever saw her without a smile on her face. Annette I know you read this board from time to time and I have to tell you that you were always classy and you still have me swooning all these years later. It would be great to catch up on the old days with you via this board so join in on the conversation with us!
Yeah, be careful with Fb.
They put new pics up on the harmony theatre page. One looks like Bobbiroxanne on the pay phone.
Sounds like it was alot of fun. What were the age ranges of the performers?
I think he is talking about the Museum of Sex on 5th Ave.
Can you post a link for the Harmony News? Thanks.
Maybe I’ll come to NYC for the Burlesque Festival. Sounds like it’ll be alot of fun. Maybe some of our Melody faves will be there.
melharfol, Glad to hear that Ray is doing well. Has he seen Crystal Blue recently? I don’t know when I’ll be back to NYC for a visit. Got some health issues going on now and until I can get them resolved I have to stay close to home. Hopefully sometime this summer I can come in for a few days.
No such thing as a free woman. One way or another we end up paying for it. I too broke up last year after 20 years. I will be paying once a month until my kids turn 21.
Try utopiaguide.com
Tony, try these yahoo groups: bigpooh_playhouse & NYC Strip Clubs.
While I was in the know about alot of what went on behind the scenes of the Melody I don’t know how Dominique made her money. I’m pretty sure that Bob didn’t leave her money because he had a wife and kids living in NJ. Its always possible that some of the regulars left her money, Pie included. I had heard that Dominique invested in real estate but also don’t know for sure.
There are some yahoo groups that hold mardi gras type parties in NYC and the parties are usually held in areas that even the cops are too afraid to go into. Check out these two yahoo groups: FunInNYC and apartmentnyc.
Yes Madeline Droege is her real name. I’ve known that for at least 25 years. She has a houses in Brooklyn and in Orient which is way out in Suffolk Co. Droege is a Dutch name.
Under Cover
‘Anything goes'
The old Harmony Theater burlesque club in Tribeca could be staging a comeback.
Madeline Droege, who ran the Harmony and still owns its 279 Church St. building, posted an online ad soliciting renters for the ground floor and basement space.
“‘Anything goes’ uses include bar/night spot/party space/restaurant/live theater/store,” she wrote in the ad. She is asking $10,000 a month for the 3,750 square feet.
Separately, Droege, a k a Madeline D'Anthony, also has a Web site advertising the space as the Fig Leaf Theater and Pink Fig juice and raw food snack bar. The site offers the theater space for rent for themed parties and events, and promises, “Coming soon.”
Droege did not return calls for comment, but one source said she had approached at least one burlesque group about performing in the space. Another source said costumed people turned up at the building on a recent night looking for an S&M party, and a sign posted on the front door told them to go to a different location.
The city closed down the original Harmony Theater in 1998, but burlesque dancing crept back in. From 2006 to 2008, during nonprofit Collective:Unconscious’s lease of the space, a group called Pinchbottom held monthly shows, said a Pinch performer and producer who goes by the name Jonny Porkpie.
A burst sewer pipe forced Collective:Unconscious to leave in the middle of last summer, and the space appears to have been empty since then. Local residents, who long objected to the stripping, likely prefer it that way, but they recently got wind of Droege’s plans, and they are not happy. Several people from the area turned up at a Community Board 1 meeting last week to urge the board to reject a liquor license for the space, should Droege choose to seek one.
I found this today while surfing the internet. It’s from last summer and talks about Dominique’s plan for the “Harmony” as she still owns the building on Church Street.
Oh no, he isn’t a stalker. They say hello and what not when their paths cross. He lives in the neighborhood and at 58 he is still good looking and all the Melody girls liked him.
sees, sry.
A friend of mine sses Susan Nero every now and then riding a bike around First Ave & E. 21st Street. He’s talked with her and see has a straight job and put her past behind her. Next time I’m in NYC I’ll ask him more about it.
I never saw George trying to fuck the girls. His brother Ray however did fuck some of the girls. There was a fire exit door in the lobby that led to nice clean bathrooms and a room with a mattress. I remember one night on a Fri or Sat, Ray took Inga ( an older blonde) who must’ve been in her late 30’s then into that room and fucked her. Do you remember Sapphire? She was I think Puerto Rican, a bit heavy but she was cute. She wanted me to take her to a hotel and George Gibson took me aside and warned me not to go because she had a veneral disease. He probably had done her and caught something from her. Needless to say I took his advice.
Back when Church Street was open Dominique had a website harmonytheatre.com and the domain was a local address in NYC on First Ave somewhere near 14th street. I recognized where it was because I grew up in that neighborhood. It’s where I spent the first half of my life. The website IIRC had pics of the girls and Dominique sold her videos there. I wanted to buy some but I wasn’t about to put money in her pocket because you know she wasn’t giving the girls any money from the sales. I remember her asking Kiki to make a video and when she refused she fired her. I know there is a way to find old websites and see them as they were. I’m going to figure this out and if I can do it I’ll copy and paste here. BTW, the old harmony website is now some sort of jewish conspiracy site. Go figure!
I checked the web domain and it is registered in Madiera which is in Portugal. The website claims that the owner of the Harmony was a woman who previously owner of the Paris Theatre ( Formerly The Follies). It says she danced like a cat. Now Dominique was anything but a cat and the girls hated her. I wonder who put this bullshit on the internet? There is a topless pic of a girl on the site who I do not recognize as well as a pic of a turnstyle. IIRC there was no turnstyle at the Melody/Harmony between 1978 & 1985. The website itself sells Christmas wreaths and has a number to place an order which is 1-800-555-1212 and that is a number for directory assistance for toll free listings. Perhaps this is someone’s idea of an April Fool’s Joke.
What do you guys think?
I found the “under construction” web site about The Harmony. From what I read I think that Dominique is behind this.
http://www.brsaa.com/index.php
Maybe Dominique is behind that other website. If you can post the url we can check to see who the registered owner is. Could also be someone too young to know about Bob Anthony and the Melody’s history who didn’t fact check.
STARSHINE BURLESQUE
Little Brooklyn and Creamy Stevens bring you Starshine Burlesque.
The cutting edge in burlesque takes it off every Thursday night at Rififi. Enjoy a cocktail before the show as go-go sensations bump and grind to the irresistible sounds of the Meat Mistress' turntable. On stage, in the Backroom Starshine turns up the heat with a variety show of eye-popping striptease, magic, acrobatics, and vaudevillian antics. A different show every week of comedy, music, dance and good old fashioned burly-Q!
RiFiFi (Cinema Classics)
332 East 11th Street at 1st Avenue
Every Thursday- 10:15ish pm $5
Found this on Yahoo tonight. brooklyngirl.com for different shows/performers all over NYC.
Yeah
Tony, You have the right page. I am a fan too but my pic isn’t posted. Maybe Dominique is behind that under construction website. There are ways to find out who the webmaster/mistess is. Put the link up here so I can check it out. Whoever is behind this site is showing no respect for Bob Anthony IMHO.
There is a page on Facebook dedicated to the Melody. It’s called Melody/Harmony Theatre NYC fan page. Put the word out to all the guys/girls who were regulars up there.
Tony, I agree with you saying Dominique was a pig. IIRC she was the first strip club owner to charge the girls to work and then other strip clubs started doing it. Dominique had an apartment very close to the Melody on 49th streetbetween 6th & 7th Ave. Bob would go to her place in the afternoons. I don’t know what he saw in her. She was a wildebeast. Bob must have been out of his frikken mind to have made her a partner. I know for a fact that Jerry hated her. One of these days I’ll post how Rose fucked me over.
As far as the old guys in the lounge went, I thought Manny Rosen to be a tad arrogant at times. Basically the only ones I liked were Seymour, (he had season tickets to the Rangers) and I used to buy his extra tickets to alot of the games. I also liked the Professor who used to work the box office weekday afternoons. He had a pompadour and no teeth. We used to have to protect him from Augie and old guy who Bob had banned from the theatre. He would always threaten Professor when he would walk to the subway station after work. MelHarFol there used to be a pretty brunette that worked days at Lucky Lady, her name was Kelly. Do you remember her? She was really sweet and had the looks and personality of the girl you wish lived next door to you! As far as the Melody ladies one of my favorites was Anette Heinz. I don’t think I ever saw her without a smile on her face. Annette I know you read this board from time to time and I have to tell you that you were always classy and you still have me swooning all these years later. It would be great to catch up on the old days with you via this board so join in on the conversation with us!