Burlesque show takes it (almost) all off
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One performer is wrapped in a straitjacket, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" before she peels to bra and panties. Another keeps her spangled two-piece costume on but hides behind a fluttering fan of white feathers. A third, in cowboy hat, red checked shirt and short shorts, strips to pasties and a thong while twirling a hula hoop to Patsy Cline's "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round."
It all ends with a 3D striptease: The audience wears 1950s-style three-dimensional glasses while a silhouetted dancer bumps and grinds to a wailing sax behind a white screen, her tossed stockings seeming to come right at you.
At Le Cirque Rouge, the clothes come off but the underwear stays on. "No fake boobs, no stripper moves" is how Le Cirque Rouge differentiates itself from other strip shows.
For the past five years, the troupe of dancers, singers and musicians has worked to bring back old-time burlesque — bawdy, funny but with no nudity. If it were a movie, Le Cirque Rouge (French for "The Red Circus") would be rated PG-13, with adult situations.
"It's neither strippers doing lap dances nor like a straight jazz thing or a straight theater thing," says Amy Buchanan, Le Cirque Rouge's founder, director and master of ceremonies. "It's like bringing theater to the bar scene, which is really fun."
Sounds like a show I'd like to see...
It all ends with a 3D striptease: The audience wears 1950s-style three-dimensional glasses while a silhouetted dancer bumps and grinds to a wailing sax behind a white screen, her tossed stockings seeming to come right at you.
At Le Cirque Rouge, the clothes come off but the underwear stays on. "No fake boobs, no stripper moves" is how Le Cirque Rouge differentiates itself from other strip shows.
For the past five years, the troupe of dancers, singers and musicians has worked to bring back old-time burlesque — bawdy, funny but with no nudity. If it were a movie, Le Cirque Rouge (French for "The Red Circus") would be rated PG-13, with adult situations.
"It's neither strippers doing lap dances nor like a straight jazz thing or a straight theater thing," says Amy Buchanan, Le Cirque Rouge's founder, director and master of ceremonies. "It's like bringing theater to the bar scene, which is really fun."
Sounds like a show I'd like to see...
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