Beer on Broadway
By Noah Davis • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: beer lists
Forgo the classy intermission sips of bubbly at your next musical and stuff a few bottles of these apropos brews in your tux jacket.
“Cats”
Synopsis: Cats with names like Bustopher Jones and Mr. Mistoffelees gather in a junkyard to publicly manicure themselves, meow songs, and decide which feline will be reincarnated.
Drink: Dairy-inspired Left Hand Milk Stout and New Glarus Spotted Cow are the cat’s pajamas, and catnip to us.
“Phantom of the Opera”
Synopsis: A disfigured stalker with a pension for opera wins the affection of a beautiful woman, but loses his cool when he finds out she’s in love with a smooth operator named Raoul.
Drink: Split your time between two spirits; smuggle in Fantôme Saison.
“South Pacific”
Synopsis: Guys will do anything to meet chicks — even travel to mysterious Bali Ha’i. Sailors in this wartime production go native.
Drink: You likely won’t be able to score a South Pacific SP Lager, so stick with the island pleasure that is Kona Longboard Lager.
“Billy Elliot”
Synopsis: A young English boy transforms a poor, outdated mining town with his wicked ballet skills and leaps from working class to high-brow society.
Drink: It takes guts to buck the status quo. Throw back a few pints of England’s own John Courage.
“West Side Story”
Synopsis: Two rival gangs dance it out on the mean streets of the Big Apple in the name of cred, and learn something about themselves in the process.
Drink: If you’re a Jet, go with Brooklyn Lager; Sharks should represent Puerto Rico with Cerveceria India Medalla Light.
