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Dirty Martini (born Linda Marraccini) is an American burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher.. She is best known for her over-the-top performance acts, which mostly incorporate various classic burlesque styles such as the fan dance, balloon striptease, and shadow stripping.
The $250,000 adults-only musical review “Les Poupées de Paris” featured 250 puppets and a musical score by Broadway team Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. The costumes alone cost $75,000.
"Burlesque is more than stripping," she said. "It is beautiful costumes, comics, production numbers and much more." [1] La Rose was said to have been the first strip tease dancer to be paid over $2,000 a week. [2] At the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, she was reported to have commanded $2,500 a week on the national burlesque circuit ...
Jim Sweeney produces the show. He originally hosted Hubba Hubba Revue (as "Kingfish"), with co-host Eddie Dane. Dane died in March 2011. [3] [4] Jim Sweeney continues to host the show with co-host Alexa von Kickinface, and "Hooray Hostess" Maggie Motorboat as well as a rotating cast of co-hosts including Lee Presson from the swing revival band Lee Presson and the Nails, [5] Jay Siren of ...
Louise, played by Sachiko Nicholson, gets a birthday cake surrounded by her friends on the road, in a bittersweet moment in the College Light Opera Company production of "Gypsy," through July 13.
Advertisement for a burlesque troupe, 1898 Souvenir programme for Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué. American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows. Burlesque became popular in the United States in the late 1860s and slowly evolved to feature ribald comedy and female nudity.
Fan dance by Miss Exotic World 2005 Michelle L'amour at the 2007 Miss Exotic World Pageant. The Miss Exotic World Pageant (officially, the Miss Exotic World Pageant and Striptease Reunion) is an annual neo-burlesque pageant and convention, and is the annual showcase event (and fundraiser for) the Burlesque Hall of Fame (formerly the Exotic World burlesque museum).
Pinchbottom is a theatrical burlesque company created by Jonny Porkpie and Nasty Canasta in 2004 and run by Porkpie since 2010. [1] It is known for its brand of "theater-burlesque fusion" [2] which presents "full-length comedic play[s] in which performers take their clothes off in every other scene.".