After a sold-out final weekend of "Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol" (starring Nasty Canasta, "Perhaps the loveliest and certainly the nudest Scrooge in history" -The New York Times), Pinchbottom offers one last chance to spend the goddamn holidays in naked style with another risque retelling of a classic tale, "How The Pinch Stole Xmas".
When Nasty Canasta takes charge of the Holiday Pageant, she decides to celebrate with nudity, using burlesque stars for sexy tributes to the season. But the grinch-like (but legally distinct) "Pinch" (Jonny Porkpie) wants to keep Xmas clean and pure as the virgin snow, and so dresses up as Burlesque Santa and sets out to kidnap each and every performer in Nasty's show. Will The Pinch have a change of heart in time to save Nasty's pageant? Or will Xmas remain forever G-rated? A stocking-stuffer that takes on the holidays as only Pinchbottom can; from behind, "How the Pinch Stole Xmas" is holiday treat full of goodies for all the bad boys and girls.
Returning for its 3rd year, "How The Pinch Stole Xmas" is the centerpiece of the bump-and-grind feast that is the 2009 Burlesque Blitz, appearing right smack dab in the middle of the 5-day extravaganza. The 2009 edition stars Nasty Canasta and Jonny Porkpie, with Julie Atlas Muz, Little Brooklyn, Legs Malone, Mat "Sealboy" Fraser, Sapphire Jones, and promises to be yet another night of holiday fun "Not for the family or faint of heart"
Dates: Monday, December 28 at 10:30pm
Venue: The Kraine Theater
Address: 85 East 4th Street, Manhattan
Ticket Info: http://www.pinchbottom.com/tickets/
Thursday, December 17, 2009
How The Pinch Stole Xmas
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Boudoir Of Horrors Burlesque
Tuesday, October 27 @ 8:00pm The Beehive, 541 Tremont Street, Boston MA starring Nasty Canasta and Jonny Porkpie with special guests Clams Casino, Legs Malone, Ruby Valentine
Friday, October 30 @ 10:00pm Killmeyers Old Bavaria Inn, 4254 Arthur Kill Rd, Staten Island, NY starring Nasty Canasta and Jonny Porkpie with special guests Anita Cookie and Gal Friday
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
