Another blogger steps forth to define what burlesque was and is today, and more importantly perhaps, what it isn’t.
Agreed: It is not the Pussycat Dolls.
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Seattle Times » What is Burlesque?
There are varying definitions, but burlesque was basically a comic imitation of a serious literary, political or artistic form, at least in the beginning. These shows used comedy, parody, sexuality and music to defy the established and/or conventional way of looking at things.
What a great way to cross promote the arts! I’d love to see Scranton’s Industrial Arts festival grow up to be so sexy. OK so maybe not scenes in whcih "a man wielding a handheld piece of machinery with whirring parts rub a burlesque dancer’s metal cone bra, sending sparks into the air," but … Hey, it could happen. 
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Crucible benefit fans the flames of creativity
The "Fire Cabaret" – held in the group’s 56,000-square-foot warehouse on Seventh Street – featured four short musical vignettes performed on a stage that alternated with demonstrations of industrial arts by the center’s faculty members in other parts of the venue. But even the demonstrations were often paired to music, as in one room where blacksmiths pounded enormous hammers on red-hot metal, while a woman danced on a table in African print dress to several men playing rhythmic drums and shaking maracas.
***COMMENTS AT A NEW YORK MAGAZINE Vulture response to this poster suggest it is a fan made poster.
Not to beat a dead horse but — ew.
It looks like A Chorus Line crossed with that groovy poster of Dorothy Dietrich after King Midas went around and touched everything.
I’ll assume there’s something covering Christina’s crotch because that’s the last thing I need popping up in my nightmares right now.
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When I started working on my NeoVaudeville project I figured there was a good chance the movement would be over before I got to share what I had discovered with audiences. If this report from Edinburgh Fringe Fest is any indication, this first decade may just be the start of more.
We’re certainly still continuing to see the shift toward mainstream. Even the new teen drama Pretty Little Liars just offered a carnival theme for its homecoming festivities.
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Edinburgh: the inexorable rise of variety and cabaret | Culture | guardian.co.uk
What interests me is why? And why now? The variety phenomenon is particularly intriguing. The clue might lie partly in the word, as McGregor points out. "It’s partly the eclectic nature of it – people’s attention spans are so short. With variety you get a bit of stand-up, a bit of dance and burlesque, a bit of acrobatics. People like to be constantly entertained." It’s low risk too: you might not like everything on the menu, but there will probably be something – and you won’t have spent good money on an hour and a half of a dud.
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Here’s more where that came from! Sweet.
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Again With the Comics: Hillbilly Comics!
Goldurn if’n thar weren’t a hillbilly craze back in the mid-1950’s, an’ goldurn if comics didn’t try to cash in like everyone else! As America emerged from World War II and entered the atomic age, a group of lovable, backwards, shabbily-dressed hill folk were left behind by a combination of poverty and geographic remoteness. Their feudin’ moonshine-drinkin’, cousin-marryin’ ways were pure comedy gold for the country’s burgeoning entertainment industry, and soon the movies, television, and yes, comics had hillbilly fever. For years, the American hillbilly provided his wealthier, more sophisticated countrymen with countless hours of joyful schadenfreude before the fad wore off, and they went back to just being poor people. Anyhow, bite off a chaw o’ tabaccy, have a sip o’ some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw’s possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:
We’re submersed in all things Hillbilly Chic in preperation for Steamtown Vaudeville’s next production A Razzle Dazzle Hootenanny at The Vintage Theater on Aug, 21. I want this comic so bad it huts!
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Hillbilly Comics! | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log
And April Smith and the Great Picture Show knock one out of the ballpark at the Newport Folk Festival this past weekend. This is one trend that ain’t over folks.
You may have heard her song "Terrible Things" teasing the new season of Weeds on Showtime. Regardless, scoot over to NPR and listen to their archive of the aformentioned performance or the June 2010 concert on Mountain Stage. I’m sure April wouldn’t mind terribly if you bought the album.
While you’re at the store, check out the artwork on her t-shirts. It’s everything we’ve been talking about.
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“Judging from some tracks on her new album ‘Songs for a Sinking Ship,’ Brooklyn singer/songwriter April Smith is quite the burlesque bad girl. Verbally smacking down the competition for her man’s affections (’Dixie Boy’) and confessing to sins apparently too atrocious to mention (’Terrible Things’), Smith takes a ride into the annals of vintage Mason-Dixon pop, packing a sound full of sassy hooks and swinging rhythms.” – Paste
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