Sunday, August 16, 2009

Belles and Whistles

OLD TYME STRIP SHOW
Starring Michelle L'amour and the Chicago Starlets

Saw a live burlesque show Friday night, midnight. A menagerie of molls revive the classic art of striptease, with an orchestra-backed vaudevillian troupe (sporting gloves sans fingertips, yes) providing mimed comic interludes. Favorite act: redhead wearing leopard skin pillbox hat undresses to Bob Dylan's Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. I don't expect to ever see that again. Revue included two male performers; somehow only they got away with full frontal nudity. Which was hilarious. Also tremendous was this vintage routine: strip-duel between a petite brunette and a twice-her-size blonde. My kind of town.

2 comments:

  1. I would have paid a lot of money just for the Leopard-Skin-Pill-Box Hat bit. Lucky.

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  2. Yeah, that song is forever changed for me.

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