EPISODE · Dec 15, 2021 · 7 MIN
Broadway’s B-Side
from Onomatopoeia · host Columbia Journalism School
Lucy Grindon introduces us to Alex Barylski, who plays the piano at Marie’s Crisis Café, a showtunes-only singalong piano bar. Regulars call him Alex B., or Alex B-Side; he likes to play the unexpected songs. Actually, “unexpected” is kind of his whole thing. Before he started playing at Marie’s, he worked in the Russian art…
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