Reginald Primrose

Hippie love child, punk teenager, pre mid-life crisis victim
I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.

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Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Black Cat Burlesque

Boston

Raising pulses (and the dead) since the summer of 2003, Black Cat Burlesque is dedicated to putting the BUMP back into the night! Using the framework of classic burlesque to mine the depths of their twisted psyches, this scream team blends striptease thrills and spookshow chills to push the boundaries of the art form and explore the dark, cobwebbed corners of neo-cabaret. Conceived in the back of a hearse by that tassel-twirling dynamo (and former mortician), Miss Firecracker and monster man-at-large, illustrator Mister Reusch, Black Cat Burlesque is quite possibly the only burlesque troupe to build its ranks in a funeral home… During a particularly portentous embalming, our devilicious Miss F met fellow undertaker J. Cannibal. Over blood and formaldehyde, he revealed his nasty little secret: namely, a penchant for voodoo and one Miss Mary Widow-horror movie obsessed choreographer and gore-gore girl extraordinaire. Thus, our creepy coven was complete and what ensued has left a trail of broken hearts and resurrected corpses across the Eastern seaboard. Specializing in , but not limited to horror, and B-movie themed acts, BCB's cauldron bubbles over with influences that include: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Edgar Allen Poe, Russ Meyer, Hammer studios, animation, comic books, the Misfits, Phantom of the Paradise, theatre of cruelty, Maxfield Parrish, Alice Cooper, German expressionism, Grimm fairy tales, European folklore, giant Japanese monsters, Edward Gorey, Monty Python, Grand Guignol, masked wrestling, musical theater, Scooby Doo, the candy aisle, and of course, mortuary science. We have produced the now infamous burlesque horror spookshows at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Spooks A-Poppin' and the Spookalicious Horror Sideshow for the Annual 13 hour Horror Marathon. Along with DJ Vinny, we have also co-produced the sixties themed Zombies A Go-Go, Born to be Wild and the Russ Meyer Tribute nights at the Milky Way Boston. We are currently sequestered in our underground laboratory, hell bent on making Mister Reusch's ghoulish paintings FLESH for an upcoming retrospective of his work in October and an entirely Edgar Allen Poe themed spookshow for the Halloween season. Our own Famous Monsters have appeared in venues and events such as: NYC Burlesquefest 2003, 26th Annual SciFi Marathon, NELA Fetish Ball, the Slipper Room, Garters & Lace Convention, LadyFest DC; and with such acts as Jonathan Richman, the Groovy Ghoulies, the O'Debra Twins, Beat Science, 4 Piece Suit, Downbeat 5 and Electrolux. BCB has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Pitchforkmedia.com, Stuff@Nite, the Weekly Dig, and some particularly nefarious pages of the Necronomicon. Join the spooky fun at: www.blackcatburlesque.com and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blackcatburlesque
2004

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