Tag: "burlesque"

Sina Kings At Red Bennies
0 Comments. 368 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2013 @ 3:42pm.
Sina King's Burlesque 54 will be bringing a funky fusion of old school disco and jaw dropping burlesque to the Red Bennie's this Labour Day weekend.   Having earned the title of 'Miss Burlesque Australia' and the Eros Shine Awards 'Best Australian Adult Industry Trailblazer' in 2011, Sina King is well qualified to lead party goers through and evening of disco induced debauchery. Dress disco... Read More
The Australian Burlesque Festival
0 Comments. 1,629 Views. Posted 1 Jun 2012 @ 7:01am.
Following two consecutive sold-out tours, the third annual Australian Burlesque Festival promises to be “bigger, brighter and thrilling to the core”. This year the festival boasts a line-up with four international acts, as well as Australia’s finest. Headliner Anna Fur Laxis has been dubbed one of the best burlesque performers on Earth, and is making her Australian debut for the ABF. She speaks... Read More
Va Va Boombah
0 Comments. 2,443 Views. Posted 31 May 2012 @ 11:14am.
Melbourne is known for its progressive burlesque scene, but its latest addition has arrived solely with the intention to shake things up. ‘Fat burlesque’ show Va Va Boombah is making history as Melbourne’s first burlesque night to feature only plus-sized performers. Self-proclaimed empire builder and co-producer Aimee Nichols speaks about how about her political motivations behind the show,... Read More
Twisted Sisters: Bands & Burlesque
0 Comments. 922 Views. Posted 11 May 2012 @ 2:05pm.
Many performance critics are guilty of making lazy, label-slapping generalisations, defining works with compounded titles and ‘exciting’ buzzwords. For whatever reason, burlesque is often a victim of these conjunctions: descriptions of the performances can rest on tired platitudes and new additions to the English language. Burlesque-noir? Neo-burlesque? Gorelesque? It’s a way of delving into the... Read More
Star Wars Burlesque: The Empire Strips Back!
0 Comments. 5,139 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2012 @ 3:15pm.
  “Basically I’m two things: I’m a geek, and I’m a pervert,” laughs Russall Beattie, on what inspired him to develop Star Wars Burlesque: The Empire Strips Back! The show, which sold out months in advance in Sydney, visits Melbourne this weekend to entertain those who love George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy, and wondered what Darth Vader would be like if he was female, wore black latex... Read More
Sapphira
0 Comments. 1,403 Views. Posted 24 Nov 2011 @ 8:15am.
Despite 12 long years of being confined to a corporate nightmare, no amount of filing paperwork could stifle Pricilla Tonkin's desire to perform. Having made it through the regiment of a strict Christian up-bringing and a concrete jungle of office 'careers', Tonkin, now armed with the pseudonym of Sapphira, took off to pursue a world of more saucy pleasures. A decade later and Sapphira is now a... Read More
Little Match Girl
0 Comments. 2,013 Views. Posted 8 Nov 2011 @ 12:40pm.
In 1845 Danish author Hans Christian Andersen published his short story The Little Match Girl . Like so many fairy tales - Andersen's in particular - the story was a blend of fantasy and morality. An impoverished girl sits in the street, selling matches to passers-by. The girl strikes a match and sees an image of her late and beloved grandmother; at the next strike of the match, the... Read More
The Seven Deadly
0 Comments. 2,168 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 9:51am.
Described as 'classic-boudoir-tease meets lowbrow-art-party', burlesque troupe Sirens of Sin presents The Seven Deadly Sins Revealed ! The show provides an evening filled with installation acts and longer performance pieces in a style that creates 'mystery, atmosphere and visual stimulation'. Dynamite-duo Rosy Rabbit and Dolores Daiquiri both co-produce and star in the show,... Read More
Gorelesque
0 Comments. 2,262 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 8:36am.
Described on its Facebook fanpage as “Where gore and girls join forces in the ultimate homage to B-grade horror films, serial killers, fetish, the macabre and all things that go bump and grind in the night”, the super successful Gorelesque has unsurprisingly proved itself a runaway success. Yet, co-creator Vesper White is seemingly modest about their following and expresses surprise at their run... Read More
Q&A: Bertie Page Clinic
0 Comments. 1,601 Views. Posted 11 Oct 2011 @ 9:45am.
Name/Band: Bertie Page Clinic Define your genre in five words or less:   Rock and roll Valkyrie   So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you... what do they say?   "I can die a happy man now, but I hope my boner goes down first."   How long have you been gigging, writing and burlesque-ing?   I began... Read More
The Gangsters' Ball
0 Comments. 2,268 Views. Posted 8 Sep 2011 @ 9:26am.
" We have whisky, wine, women, song, and slot machines. I won't deny it and I won't apologise for it. If the majority of people didn't want them, they wouldn't be profitable, and they wouldn't exist." Infamous Atlantic City politician (and noted racketeer) Enoch "Nucky" Johnson made this fabulously ballsy statement nearly a hundred years ago during the American Prohibition - and the public's... Read More
The Gangsters' Ball Returns
0 Comments. 2,504 Views. Posted 6 Sep 2011 @ 8:39am.
For the fourth year in a row, The Gangsters’ Ball is coming back to Melbourne in September where modern day mobsters and molls can step back in time to a bygone era.  A fully themed night of non-stop entertainment, The Gangsters’ Ball brings to life the fashion, style, humour and classic entertainment of the 1930s and 1940s. Featuring MC and sideshow vaudeville performer Asher Treleaven,... Read More
An Awful Lot of Vaudeville
0 Comments. 3,020 Views. Posted 9 Aug 2011 @ 10:47am.
There is the real world and then there is Mojo Juju's world. As a child, the singer-songwriter and director of the Hoodoo Emporium grew up in her own fantasy realm, adopting a different name each day and refusing to respond to her own. Although she was a cause for concern to her father, Melbourne can count itself lucky that Mojo Juju has ventured further and further into her imagination over... Read More
Cirque De Femmes
0 Comments. 1,954 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 8:38am.
The mother of all things burlesque and the underground, Madame Natalia, is set to sizzle on the Red Bennies stage.  Having previously set Melbourne alight (literally!) with her performances as Miss Burlesque 2010 & 2011, she will entrance, entice and entertain in this one evening of cabaret, burlesque, circus arts and comedy. Multi-talented, isn't she?! Starring alongside her will be... Read More
An Awful Lot of Vaudeville At Red Bennies
0 Comments. 2,861 Views. Posted 26 Jul 2011 @ 4:38pm.
Ready to take it all the way back to 1919? Good. An Awful Lot of Vaudeville is the result of The Hoodoo Emporium (responsible for the Jitterbug Club, Mojo Juju and The Snake Oil Merchants) and Red Bennies’ alignment to bring Melbourne a seriously authentic, offbeat vaudeville experience. Boasting a spectacular lineup of nine performers, showing off everything from magicians’ trickery, old-school... Read More
The Jitterbug Club
0 Comments. 2,979 Views. Posted 31 Mar 2011 @ 3:01pm.
Popular travelling Burlesque show, The Jitterbug Club, has reached the end of a five-year run celebrating all things Vaudeville. The show’s originators, an eight-piece rag-tag band called The Snakeoil Merchants, in a further blow to local cabaret fans, will in turn wind down with one last explosive Melbourne show this week. Speaking to Beat today is singer and master-mind behind the double-act,... Read More
Grab My Junk
0 Comments. 4,164 Views. Posted 17 Mar 2011 @ 1:19pm.
Grab My Junk , one of Red Bennies' new cabaret shows, has a lot to do with what the title implies. Cassandra Atkins, one of the performers in the show, describes it as "a little bit naughty and a little bit interactive". As volunteer audience members are challenged to grab hold of some tassels and swing them for all they're worth, this is a show that doesn't shy away from... Read More
From Dusk Til Dawn
0 Comments. 2,623 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2011 @ 9:13am.
Stepping off Chapel Street and into Red Bennies feels like stepping through a portal; the venue's narrow entrance acts as some mild-seeming thoroughfare, marking exactly where one set of values applies, then doesn't anymore.   Having weaved through the traffic of swinging biceps and SUV prams, now here lies dimly and quietly of one of South Yarra's more unique venues - with art... Read More
Burlesque
0 Comments. 2,551 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Could this musical get any more camp if it tried? Despite the disappointing nature of Burlesque, it is far more enjoyable than the recent big budget musical misfire Nine. As a vehicle to launch the acting career of pop star Christina Aguilera, Burlesque is certainly a much better choice than Mariah Carey's debut the awful Glitter and Britney Spears’ dreadful Crossroads. As executive... Read More
Dionysus New Years Eve
0 Comments. 2,530 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
  This New Year’s Eve, Red Bennies presents Dionysus, a theatrical extravaganza of circus, burlesque, cabaret and vaudeville.   Experience the tidings and toasts of Dionysus (king of merriment, bottomless drinks and ill-fitting togas), witness The Birth Of The Venus Fly-Trap (her ethereal beauty is questioned only by her snapping jaws) and seel The Electric Faun (for only this... Read More
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