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  “This is not your father’s burlesque show,” intones host Atlanta Georgia (Marlena Kalm) to the assemblage who stare at the three preening women who are outfitted in sky-high heels, racy bodices and flirty skirts of the schoolgirl-gone-bad-kilt and tutu variety.  With glittery winks and flicking hips these three women ooze dangerous sex appeal and [...]

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The Happiest Medium Review by Guest Contributor Linnea Covington If you have ever had dreams of your dolls coming to life and doing a sexy strip tease, this show is for you. Produced by two-time FringeNYC winning performer and playwright Cyndi Freeman with storyteller Brad Lawrence, both whom are burlesque performers, Scratch & Pitz Burlesque and [...]

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Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?   Daughters Of Lot Company: Brain Melt Consortium Directed by: Rachel Kerry The evening’s entertainment is a sexy and silly retelling of an ancient story, until the performers do a trick that requires more than flexibility. Arousing and agitating in Biblical proportions, this [...]

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Revealed Burlesque Lives Up To Its Promising Name

by Lina Zeldovich September 25, 2010 Manhattan

Burlesque is about fun and mischief, and Revealed Burlesque is as mischievous and revealing as it gets. The producer, Doc Wasabassco and co-producer GiGi La Femme, who is also the star of the show, have the moxie and sexy to create a one-of-a-kind neo-burlesque, that combined everything from female allure to the beauty of a [...]

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Dream Of The Marionettes Is Still Very Much A Dream (Fringe Festival 2010)

by Lina Zeldovich August 29, 2010 Festivals

Costume ensembles are just about the only thing that carries Dream of Marionettes as a show. Perhaps the idea of adding a burlesque spirit to a marionettes’ rebellion against an abusive puppeteer who exploited his dolls and threatened to throw them in the furnace seemed like a new twist on the old Pinocchio tale, but [...]

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Friends Of Dorothy – An Oz Cabaret (Fringe Festival 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 24, 2010 Festivals

When I was a child there were a few things you could count on, and one of them was that (in the days before VCRs – and yes, honey, I AM that old) if you waited long enough The Wizard of Oz was going to be on TV at some point that year.  Back in [...]

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