Nestled snug in the middle of the holiday season, THE SECRET SANTA SHOW will feature performances by Sweet and Nasty favorites Anita Cookie, Gal Friday and more - all performing numbers chosen by the rest of the cast. "We'll put all the names in a hat, see?" explains host and producer Nasty Canasta. "And then we'll draw names, and tell each other what acts to do. It'll be just like those horrible office party Secret Santa things, except instead of TGI Friday's gift certificates, there'll be gorgeous and talented women getting naked in some truly amazing ways."
Since 2006, Sweet and Nasty has been adding its own unique mix of glam camp, historical fact, and blatant lies to the New York burlesque scene, and currently appears monthly at Public Assembly in Williamsburg; their December spectacular, THE SECRET SANTA SHOW, is the centerpiece of a jam-packed night of couple-friendly, risqué entertainment that will begin with go-go at 9:30 pm, and continue after the show with tunes from DJ Broadway Brassy.
Anita Cookie, Clams Casino, Gal Friday, GiGi La Femme, special guest Doc Wasabassco and your host Nasty Canasta will unwrap their presents at THE SECRET SANTA SHOW - at Public Assembly for one night only, Monday, December 21 at 10pm.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Secret Santa Burlesque
Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol
The list, which would be the envy of any burlesque producer in the world, includes such striptease luminaries as Albert Cadabra, Angie Pontani, Bambi the Mermaid, Bird of Paradise, Bunny Love, Clams Casino, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Delirium Tremens, Dirty Martini, Gal Friday, GiGi La Femme, Harvest Moon, Jezebel Express, Jo Boobs, Julie Atlas Muz, Legs Malone, Leroi the Girl Boi, Little Brooklyn, Melody Sweets, Minnie Tonka, Ms Tickle, Peekaboo Pointe, Ruby Valentine, Sapphire Jones, and more!
These 25+ guest stars will perform in rotation over the course of the two-week run, portraying the three ghosts and the spurned love interest of Scrooge's youth. A full lineup and schedule is available at http://www.pinchbottom.com/filthylucre/
"I couldn't be more thrilled to be working once again with these brilliant talents," said Nasty Canasta. "And I have no doubt that their sensual portrayals of the ghosts of Burlesque past, present, and future, will warm the cockles of any Scrooge's heart—not to mention the regions a bit lower down."
Marley was nude, to begin with....
Charles Dickens immortal classic finally drops its knickers and gets down to business. "A Christmas Carol is perhaps my absolute favorite piece of literature," says Pinchbottom co-producer Nasty Canasta, who will play the Scrooge character in the show. "But there has always been one thing missing from the classic tale... and that is, of course, sexy Victorian-era vixens lasciviously removing their knickers." According to Jonny Porkpie, who plays Marley's Ghost and is adapting the story for the burlesque stage, the Pinchbottom version will not stray far from the original text. "Other than changing the Scrooge character to a woman, his counting house to a strip club, and adding boobs every few minutes"--he said--"the show will be completely faithful to Dickens." "I mean, in its own way," Porkpie clarified. "Perhaps it might be more accurate to say that the show and Dickens will have an open relationship." Paired with a special holiday edition of Naked Girls Reading.
Tickets: http://www.pinchbottom.com/tickets/filthylucre
Monday, August 10, 2009
BROOKLYN: A Burlesque Tribute
"Did you know that Brooklyn is the birthplace of hip-hop, hipster moms, and Barbra Streisand? We'll be presenting striptease tributes to all these and more," promises Nasty Canasta - host, producer, and the reigning Cheese Queen of Coney Island. "Of course, Brooklyn is also the birthplace of Gold's Horseradish," adds Canasta. "But I'm not sure if we can do anything with that. For one thing, it'd probably burn a lot."
Since 2006, Sweet and Nasty has been adding its own unique mix of glam camp, historical fact, and blatant lies to the New York burlesque scene, and currently appears monthly at Public Assembly. Their August spectacular, BROOKLYN: A Burlesque Tribute, is the centerpiece of a jam-packed night of burlesque entertainment that will begin with go-go by Robert Moses at 9pm, and continue until Tuesday morning. As a special offer, wear your snazziest Brooklyn t-shirt for 2-for-1 admission!
What do Brooklyn and burlesque performers have in common? Find out with Clams Casino, Miss Coney Island Gal Friday, GiGi La Femme, Minnie Tonka, host Nasty Canasta and more at BROOKLYN: A Burlesque Tribute.
SWEET AND NASTY BURLESQUE presents
BROOKLYN: A Burlesque Tribute
Monday, August 17
doors at 9 pm | show at 10 pm
at Public Assembly - 70 N. 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission: $10
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
All-Star Premiere of The Vroom! Room
The Vroom! Room is a stylishly sexy burlesque noir show that promises to add some mystery back to the art of the strip tease. Hosted by the enigmatic Joey Nova and his pouty accomplice Veronica Vroom! and ensconced in the velvety haze of The Slipper Room, The Vroom! Room offers a keyhole perspective into the world of glittering spectacle with voyeuristic delight. It's also a great opportunity to catch some of burlesque's familiar faces in a whole new way. The Vroom! Room makes no apologies for being seriously sexy. You are officially invited to take part in the voyeuristic vision of Veronica Vroom!
The premiere of The Vroom! Room will feature an all-star lineup of burlesque superstars including Veronica Vroom!, GiGi La Femme, Aprella, Ruby Valentine, Runaround Sue, Sapphire Jones, Madame Rosebud, Ferro, Connie Baker, and Kristen Lee!
The Vroom! Room is on the first Monday of every month at 10pm at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard St at Stanton). Tickets ($5) are available for purchase at the door. Doors open at 10pm.
Veronica Vroom! hails from Kansas City, the home of crazy little women! After bumping and grinding her way to New York, the most obvious thing left for her to do was become a burlesque performer. Veronica can be seen vivaciously vixening and vamping at various vaudevillian venues throughout the city. If your engine needs a little revving just check out Miss Vroom!'s Myspace calendar: www.myspace.com/veronicavroom
Joey Nova is a NYC-based theatre Producer and Set Designer whose most recent work can be seen on the set of the revival of The Wiz at City Center. After dark, he is also a nightlife promoter and DJ, whose fame stems largely from pioneering the return of glam rock to New York City, most notably with his weekly glam rock party, RebelRebel. He's hosted such famous parties as Glamdammit, Bowie Ball, and Rated X: The Panty Party. In the burlesque scene, he has worked with shows such as Wasabassco Burlesque's The NEW Monday Night Burlesque at Public Assembly and Nik Sin's Metal Monday at The Slipper Room.
Veronica and Joey most recently worked together on the glittery retro-futuristic gang-deb play, Go-Go KIllers! at the Sage Theater in Times Square.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sweet and Nasty roasts The Burlesque Mayor of NYC
"Jonny Porkpie has been a personal thorn in my side for years now," claims host and producer Nasty Canasta. "It's about time someone knocked him down a few pegs - and you wouldn't believe how long the list of volunteers was to do just that." PORK ROAST will do the traditional comedy roast one better, by adding performances by some of New York's biggest stars of burlesque and variety in a tassel-twirling, boob-baring tribute to Porkpie and his unique style of 'man-lesque'. As Monday Night Burlesque producer Doc Wasabassco adds, "It's especially hard for male performers to make it in burlesque: they need a certain extra something, and Jonny ... well, he just hasn't got it. He does have nice hair, though."
Since 2006, Sweet and Nasty has been adding its own unique mix of glam camp, historical fact, and blatant lies to the New York burlesque scene. Sweet and Nasty currently appears on the last Monday of every month at Public Assembly, as part of The New Monday Night Burlesque. Their March extravaganza, PORK ROAST, is the centerpiece of a jam-packed evening of burlesque entertainment: preceded by The Kickoff at 9pm, and followed by the Monday Night Blue go-go dance party at Midnight. Plus two happy hours: preshow 8-9pm, and post-show midnight until closing.
Little Brooklyn, Albert Cadabra, Clams Casino, Anita Cookie, GiGi La Femme, Neil O'Fortune, Ruby Valentine and Doc Wasabassco are warming up the oven and sharpening the knives, and roastmaster Nasty Canasta is setting the table for PORK ROAST, a burlesque birthday roast of Jonny Porkpie at Public Assembly for one night only, Monday, March 30 at 10pm.
SWEET AND NASTY BURLESQUE and THE NEW MONDAY NIGHT BURLESQUE present
PORK ROAST
Monday, March 30 @ 10pm
at Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission: $10
Friday, January 30, 2009
Revealed: More Burlesque than Ever Before!
Pictured: Nasty Canasta, Clams Casino, GiGi La Femme, Peekaboo Pointe & Ruby Valentine. Photo credit: Luke RatrayREVEALED... Brought to you by the Power Couple of Burlesque (GiGi La Femme and Doc Wasabassco) is a cutting-edge burlesque show with a sinfully dirty twist. This unique and extra-sultry night features the sexiest, most notorious burlesque performers in New York City, as you’ve never seen them before! Revealed promises you more bang for your buck than any other show in town. What surprises will the girls have in store for us this month? Come find out and experience an evening of salacious striptease and skin, where the climax of each number leaves everything…Revealed.
February’s show will feature performances by: The girl who puts the laugher in slaughter, Creamy Stevens, The Five Alarm Fire of Burlesque & Miss Coney Island 2009, Gal Friday, The Girl Dreams Are Made Of, GiGi La Femme, The Borg Queen of Burlesque, Kobayashi Maru, Delinquent Darling, Peekaboo Pointe, and in her Revealed debut, The Black Pearl, Perle Noire.
Every month features Your Gibson Geisha Girl Fantasy, Madame Rosebud as our sexy stage kitten. This month our beloved Bastard Keith will be replaced the Maniacal Rapping Four-Eyed Devil, Schaffer the Darklord!
Doc Wasabassco In addition to Revealed, Doc Wasabassco, “The Kingpin of Burlesque’, produces Wasabassco Burlesque and The NEW Monday Night Burlesque at Public Assembly. Wasabassco hosts monthly shows at Brooklyn venues Living Room Lounge and Sputnik, The Palace of Wonders in Washington D.C., feature shows at Brooklyn hot spots Southpaw and Union Hall, and many fine venues throughout New York! Wasabassco Burlesque is sponsored by Wasabassco Hot Sauce, a delicious blend of wasabi, hot peppers, and spices. Lots of hot sauces are hot, but Wasabassco is bursting with spicy flavor!
GiGi La Femme is a delectable feast for the eyes, heart and soul. One of the most active performers on the New York Burlesque scene, she is a mainstay at many of the city's most critically acclaimed shows and best loved venues from the Bronx to the Battery and beyond. A multi-level threat, GiGi is a striptease artist, go–go dancer, pin-up model, chanteuse, host, and producer. GiGi has appeared in shows including This is Burlesque, Le Scandal, Pinchbottom Burlesque, Starshine Burlesque, Sweet & Nasty Burlesque, and Wasabassco Burlesque. She has graced stages at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Coney Island, Corio, The Cutting Room, Public Assembly, The Slipper Room, The Palace of Wonders in Washington D.C. and a multitude of venues near and far. GiGi is also a founding member of The Burlesque Alliance, producers of some of the east coast's largest burlesque events.
Revealed Burlesque is on the third Wednesday of every month at 10pm at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and Avenue A) Tickets ($20) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
So You Think You Can Pinch? Reality Parody Burlesque Show
In 2008, Pinchbottom came to an agreement with a renowned Off-Broadway theater to spend the entirety of their 2009 season -- 12 months of shows -- at that venue. When the Zipper Factory Theater shut its doors suddenly and permanently just three days before the January show was scheduled to premiere, another esteemed Off-Broadway house stepped in to provide a last-minute home for “Murder Most Naked”, which became the best-attended and best-received event in Pinchbottom’s 4-year history.
Now, Pinchbottom is thrilled to announce that they have reached an agreement with that venue, The Bleecker Street Theater, to continue there for the rest of their scheduled Winter Season. So, on February 21, “reality” meets nudity when Pinchbottom presents their second world-premiere theatrical burlesque event of 2009: the 100% fake reality show SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PINCH AMERICA’S NEXT TOP BOTTOM OF TALENT.
When Pinchbottom puts a gaggle of gorgeous burlesque performers in a house on a desert island in a bus on the road in a boardroom on a boat at a circus with a dancing bachelor idol apprentice and someone else's wife's nanny's washed-up celebrity chef and Cory and forces them to compete competitively for the title of "Top Most Best Biggest Everything Ever for all time 2009", what will happen? Only one thing’s for sure... it’s going to be sexy.
The final five contestants strut will their stuff in front of a live audience on Saturday, February 21 at 10:30pm, in an event that purports to be the Grand Finale of a vigorous, vicious, and sensual season of Reality TV.
And what would a reality show be without rejection? For the first time ever, Pinchbottom is asking the general public to take part in the show by sending in their own audition/rejection videos! Submissions to the Loser File should include both horrendous audition footage and video of the submitter reacting as they are brutally rejected from the show in front of millions. Videos can be submitted on You Tube in response to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NnXt1SNlA, or to the show page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51186339788
“When the chips are down, and the economy is dire, what do the networks do?” asked Pinchbottom star Nasty Canasta, rhetorically. “Replace expensive high-quality scripted shows with cheap and easy Reality TV. Well, Pinchbottom may not be a major television network (yet), but we certainly are cheap and easy!”
Nasty Canasta and Jonny Porkpie host, as finalists Clams Casino, GiGi La Femme, Harvest Moon, Legs Malone, and Naughtia Nice are judged by cantankerous local celebrities Mr. Kenny Law and Miss Astrid for the show that finally answers the question “What the hell is a burlesque reality show, anyway?”
Producer: Pinchbottom Burlesque
Show Title: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN PINCH AMERICA’S NEXT TOP BOTTOM of talent
Date: Saturday, February 21 at 10:30pm
Venue: The Bleecker Streeet Theater
Address: 45 Bleecker Street, Manhattan
Ticket Info: price: $20 online: pinchbottom.com/tickets or by phone: 212-352-3101
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Revealed: cutting-edge burlesque with a dirty twist
January's show is going to be hot and WET! Featuring water themed performance by: The Intoxicating Anita Cookie, NYC's Most Delicious Dish, Clams Casino, The Girl Dreams Are Made Of, GiGi La Femme, The Borg Queen of Burlesque, Kobayashi Maru, Delinquent Darling, Peekaboo Pointe, and Alabaster Beauty, Ruby Valentine.
Every month features Your Gibson Geisha Girl Fantasy, Madame Rosebud as our sexy stage kitten and your charming and inebriated host, Bastard Keith! Revealed Burlesque is on the third Wednesday of every month at 10pm at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and Avenue A) Tickets ($20) are available by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or online at www.horseTRADE.info
Doc Wasabassco In addition to Revealed, Doc Wasabassco, "The Kingpin of Burlesque', produces Wasabassco Burlesque and The NEW Monday Night Burlesque at Public Assembly. Wasabassco hosts monthly shows at Brooklyn venues Living Room Lounge and Sputnik, The Palace of Wonders in Washington D.C., feature shows at Brooklyn hot spots Southpaw and Union Hall, and many fine venues throughout New York! Wasabassco Burlesque is sponsored by Wasabassco Hot Sauce, a delicious blend of wasabi, hot peppers, and spices. Lots of hot sauces are hot, but Wasabassco is bursting with spicy flavor! www.wasabassco.com
GiGi La Femme is a delectable feast for the eyes, heart and soul. One of the most active performers on the New York Burlesque scene, she is a mainstay at many of the city's most critically acclaimed shows and best loved venues from the Bronx to the Battery and beyond. A multi-level threat, GiGi is a striptease artist, go-go dancer, pin-up model, chanteuse, host, and producer. GiGi has appeared in shows including This is Burlesque, Le Scandal, Pinchbottom Burlesque, Starshine Burlesque, Sweet & Nasty Burlesque, and Wasabassco Burlesque. She has graced stages at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Coney Island, Corio, The Cutting Room, Public Assembly, The Slipper Room, The Palace of Wonders in Washington D.C. and a multitude of venues near and far. GiGi is also a founding member of The Burlesque Alliance, producers of some of the east coast's largest burlesque events. www.gigilafemme.com
Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.
"Worth considerably more than the paltry $20 admission fee it demands, the neo-burlesque show Revealed offers up a substantial helping of coquetry, comedy and camp, along with other, pinker, softer words beginning with the letter C." -Anna King, New York Press
"Yes, there's full nudity, and I for one approve, but the best part of the fun is in the gaudy creativity on display." Jon Sobel, Blogcritics Magazine
"An ideal date night for the decadent." -Not For Tourists Guide
"You can't go wrong at Revealed if you're looking for a night of escapist fun and classic entertainment. And you can drink in the theater. Doesn't get much better than that." -Larry Litt, New York Theatre Wire
Here's some of GiGi La Femme's earlier work in Starshine Burlesque: