Monday, February 14, 2005

Risque burlesque takes off everywhere

By Alison Maxwell, USA TODAY
4/10/2004

Burlesque is back in Hollywood and throughout the country.

• At the Shim Sham Club in New Orleans, advance ticket sales for the club's nightly burlesque shows have doubled, says production manager Jessica Boyd. Burlesque dancer Kitten La Rue, of the club's Shim Sham Revue, performed last week on The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn. (Related item: Club puts new bloom on old va-va-voom)
• Hot burlesque troupe the Pontani Sisters hit the stage late last month at a Target launch party for makeup guru Sonia Kashuk's new book, Real Beauty. Model Cindy Crawford co-hosted the bash; models Christy Turlington and Inez Ribeiro and actress Keri Russell enjoyed the show.
• Burlesque fan and shock rocker Marilyn Manson has been performing some small burlesque-style shows prior to his next record release, according to a spokeswoman for his label, Interscope Records.
• Last year, teen idol Christina Aguilera, model/actress Carmen Electra, musician Gwen Stefani, actress Brittany Murphy and musician Nikka Costa performed with the Pussycat Doll Revue, a burlesque-style cabaret act at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
• The first New York Burlesque festival hits the Big Apple May 23-25. Forty burlesque performers will take over two floors of lower Manhattan's Knitting Factory for a night of burlesque performances, according to Thirsty Girl Productions.

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