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The Marigold Room presents

A Supper Club & Revue Velvet Meridian

An Evening in Seven Movements

Friday & Saturday · 21 – 22 November · Curtain 8:00 PM

Movements I – VII

The Programme

Two halves, one interval, and a strict rule against encores before midnight. The room seats one hundred and ten; the orchestra pit holds nine.

  1. VIII · 00

    Overture in Brass

    The nine-piece house band opens cold, no announcement, house lights at a quarter.

  2. VIII · 22

    Marigold Suite

    Three linked numbers written for this room in 1931 and unheard since 1958.

  3. VIII · 55

    The Copper Ladder

    Aerial sequence above the parquet. Front tables are asked to remain seated.

  4. IX · 30

    Interval & Oysters

    Twenty-five minutes. The oyster bar opens on the mezzanine landing.

  1. IX · 55

    Nocturne, Reprised

    Solo piano and one voice. The chandeliers are dimmed to a single filament.

  2. X · 20

    Chrome & Feather

    The full company in mirrored costume; the sunburst backdrop is flown in at bar 32.

  3. X · 58

    Finale: Meridian

    Fourteen minutes, unbroken, ending on the house's original 1926 pipe organ.

  4. XI · 15

    Late Service

    Dancing until two. The band returns in shifts; the kitchen serves a short menu.

Reservations

Tables of the House

All tables include the full programme and the interval service. Dress is black tie or the nearest sincere attempt.

Mezzanine

$85

Elevated rail seating, two per table.

  • Full seven-movement programme
  • Coupe on arrival
  • Cloakroom included
Parquet

$140

Floor tables inside the sunburst.

  • Everything in Mezzanine
  • Four-course supper service
  • Oyster bar at the interval
  • Reserved through late service
The Boxes

$320

Six private boxes, four seats each.

  • Everything in Parquet
  • Dedicated attendant
  • Backstage at midnight

Since Nineteen Twenty-Six

The House

110Seats
9In the pit
1926Doors opened
7Movements

The Marigold Room was cut into the basement of a bank in the winter of 1926, which explains the ceiling: forty feet of plaster ziggurat stepped upward toward a skylight that was bricked over before a single note was played. The architects never forgave the bank. The room, mercifully, kept the steps.

Everything you see tonight is arranged around the centre line of that ceiling. The tables mirror. The band mirrors. The chandeliers were rehung in 1954 to sit precisely six feet either side of the axis, and the original gilder's hairline — a single brass inlay running the length of the floor — is still visible if you look between the parquet boards.

We ask only three things. Arrive before the overture, because it starts cold. Do not applaud during the Nocturne. And when the finale reaches the organ, look up: the plaster steps were built to carry that exact chord, and they still do.

— Ilse Rademaker, House Manager

Two nights only

Reserve a Table

Telephone the box office · Sixth & Marigold · Ask for Ilse