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NEWS AND REVIEWS
SUMMER NIGHTS CONCERT SERIES: CHERRY BOMBSHELL SINGS “FEVER”
NEWSFLASH - June 14th: Confirmed that Dita von Teese is performing in NOLA on July 19th and 20th, and that the House of Blues is the place.
Excerpted from: “Women We Love:Dita von Teese” by Dominique Zonyéé, Limite
The “Queen of Burlesque”, sexiness, elegance, and fetish, Miss Dita Von Teese is a fair skinned beauty that we all can’t help but love. Armed with a vintage style and enough sexual confidence for all of female-kind. Dita is one of the first names that comes to mind where modern dance is involved. As an accomplished ballerina, model, and burlesque dancer Von Teese, born Heather Sweet, is in a sex class of her own. read more here
May 25th: DITA VON TEESE IS COMING TO NEW ORLEANS IN JULY!!!
From her Twitter: @DitaVonTeese “My New Orleans show will be in July....more info to come! I LOVE New Orleans, and can't wait to be back! It's been years!” Burlesque Scene will keep you updated as more details are released.
Dita’s Website: http://www.dita.net/
Charleston Burlesque Fest feature and gallery is here.
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SHOW REVIEWS from Burlesque Scene:
June 6th (Fleur de Tease): The talents of Trixie Minx, Bella Blue, Madame Mystere, Lily Summers, Natasha Fiore packed the house at One Eyed Jacks, the audience including celebrities Tim Robbins and an actor from HBO’s Treme. We were amazed by a beautiful synchronized trapeze duo. Veve the Escape Artist defied all bondage attempts, Magic Mike mystified us and MC Chris Lane’s irreverent humor tied it all together. This show, the season finale, means we have to wait until September for more Fleur de Tease. Thank goodness there are other troupes and shows!
June 5th (Bustout Burlesque): Lola Van Ella and Sammich the Tramp came in from St. Louis for the Bustout Show at the House of Blues. Lola sings and performs as the quintessential 50’s girl next door. Her finale included her cake frosting act in which she frosted herself. What a sweet treat! Sammich the Tramp mimed her way through a clever pantomime. Athena sang her heart out as always, and the beauty of Foxy Flambeau and Praline Dupree seduced us. It was a full house culminating in a very satisfied audience.
 May 15th (Billion Dollar Baby Dolls): Star Wars was such a fun theme! DC and the Band were strong as usual, and the performers really got into their parts. Han Solo, Jabba the Hut, Darth Vader, R2 D2, all shined. Sugar Lee as Princess Leia sang a sexy Happy Birthday song to Jeff, Burlesque Scene’s Editor, and to DC from the band. Whipped cream antics topped off the packed show! Bravo to Reverend Spooky and the Troupe!
May 13th (OpenHouse Music Presents: Sin Lilies Burlescapades and Special Guests Bella Blue, Lady Ginger Licious and Rev. Spooky LeStrange): Prince songs naturally go with burlesque, or so these inspired performers amply proved. All the girls put on a performance every bit as dangerous as the “Artist Formerly Named Prince” himself. Congratulations to Zac Kushner of OpenHouse Music New Orleans for his promotion skills.
May 9th (Fleur de Tease): What a fantastic Mother’s Day Burlesque show! What mother wouldn’t be proud of Fleur de Tease? Wild Cherry dancing to Pink Floyd’s “What Do You Want from Me?” was priceless, funny and a testament to her burlesque skills! Never seen Roxie le Rouge look as gorgeous as she did debuting her lime green ballerina outfit! Trixie, Bella, Lily and Madame Mystere were all exquisite in their dancing. Oops and Sarah really clowned it up. Master of Ceremonies, Chris Lane, had the audience at “Hello”.
May 2nd (Bustout Burlesque): Love le Chat Noir as a new venue. Athena sang her heart out, as usual. The audience participation was fun. The entire cast really shined.
May 1st (Fleur de Tease): You continue to perform with Broadway level talent! The surreal carnivale of music and costume of Bingo! combines for must see event!
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OpenHouse Music Presented: Show Us Your Hidden Assets!
Thursday, April 15 at 9:30 pm - 12, Prytania Cafe, 3445 Prytania St., 70115
April 16: “Congratulations to Lana for a solid debut as an MC, and to all the performers for a very professional and successful show. Love the Prytania Cafe venue.” - BurlesqueScene.com
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April 9th (Storyville Starlettes): Our compliments for a very entertaining "Last Bunny Standing" show last nite at the All-ways. "Funny, sexy, magical, and full of surprises!"
April 5th (Fleur de Tease): Congratulations! Your show was way more fun than Tim Burton’s “Alice”. You really brought down the house and consistently offer premium burlesque performances.
Congratulations Slow Burn and Grindin’ Diamonds
March 28, 2010
Thanks to a packed house Saturday night at the Howlin’ Wolf, you successfully launched a larger venue for your wonderful show revue. You have “raised the bar” for New Orleans Burlesque entertainment and everyone involved put on a fun and beautiful show. Well done!
Find out more at: http://www.SlowBurnBurlesque.com
Happy Birthday, Immodesty Blaize, March 23rd
March 23, 2010
Immodesty Blaize is one of the most famous burlesque performers, and Burlesque Scene wishes her a very happy and inspirational birthday today. See more of her at her website http://ImmodestyBlaize.com
CHARLESTON BURLESQUE FEST - Congratulations to the First Annual 2010 Charleston Burlesque Fest for the success of their show. Compliments to Brandy Valentine and all the performers. Photo gallery by our associate photographer, Patrick J. Malone. (Note: Some images taken during extremely low light. Use arrows at top of image pages to navigate gallery.)
CHARLESTONSCENE “Burlesque” By Karen Briggs, Special to The Post and Courier, Thursday, June 3, 2010 - Park Circle got all hot and bothered last Saturday at the city's "1st Annual Charleston Burlesque Fest." Presented by Charleston's Bizzaro Burlesque troupe, the event brought in a bevy of beauties from the Holy City and afar to the South of Broadway Theatre to perform a "veritease" and showcase of talent. Read more...
A Peek Into “Peek-A-Boo Revue” Stars
January 4, 2010 - Excerpted from Simply Burlesque (http://itssimplyburlesque.wordpress.com/)
Since the early ‘90s, burlesque has seen resurgence in American nightlife. The Johnny Depp owned Viper Room in Los Angeles housed one of the first major burlesque troupes to gain national prominence: the Pussycat Dolls. Founded in 1995 by dancer Robin Antin, with the help of actress Christina Applegate (Married With Children, Samantha Who?), the group went on to spawn a hit making music group and a Las Vegas revue at Caesars Palace. Clubs like Forty Deuce have sprung up across the country and burly stars like Dita Von Teese and the New York City eatery, The Box, have gained mainstream appeal (the latter has been featured on the CW’s teen soap Gossip Girl as the fictional burlesque club, Victrola). Read more story and interview at Simply Burlesque...
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OLDER NEWS
Alice Schiller, Burlesque Entrepreneur,
Dies at Age 95
Alice Schiller was a well-brought-up woman from the midwest who burst into tears on the day her husband told her he opened a burlesque club in Los Angeles, but then rebounded to manage the Pink Pussycat of Hollywood, making it one of the most successful, celebrated and talked about feathered nightclubs of its time. Mrs. Schiller died in her sleep at the age of 95 on Dec. 19,2009 at her Washington home.
 "She came to see burlesque as an art form and fun entertainment. She treated people with respect and dignity and wanted to make the place something she was proud of," Carole Feld said about her aunt. Her house and her own wardrobe were all shades of pink, so Alice made the club pink through and through, and it proved to be the color of her success. According to her niece’s account, Alice Schiller never drank, smoked or swore, and had definitely never planned to own a supper club in which performers left the stage much less clothed than when they came on. Ironically, for two decades, from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, Schiller found her calling and made the Pink Pussycat into a huge success.
The club was located near the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, and was popular with tourists and locals, acclaimed for its sparkling stage shows and star-studded celebrity clientele.
It even entertained such Hollywood royalty as the Rat Pack, and rightly so. Dancers were given stage names like Fran Sinatra, Deena Martin, Samya Davis Jr, and Peeler Lawford. The stars couldn’t resist seeing their stand-ins.
The Pink Pussycat had become also internationally famous due to its related academy of higher education, the Pink Pussycat College of Strip Tease, fondly referred to as the Navel Academy of the West. Wives were encouraged to attend and only classy entertainment was allowed. 
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