63-64 - The New Monday Night Burlesque

The New Monday Night Burlesque
Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos Art Space)
04 August 2008, 2100
(1/2 show for the Fresh Face Showcase and 1 show for the Main Event)

Monday Night Burlesque has been around for about a decade at Galapagos Art Space. When the club changed hands, so did the group producing Monday Night Burlesque. Now Galapagos is Public Assembly and the nekkidness is presented by Doc Wasabassco. Wasabassaco, the only burlesque show that is a hot pepper sauce and the only hot pepper sauce that is also a burlesque show, produces shows throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan and stars the lovely GiGi La Femme. If the pepper sauce isn't hot enough for you, trust me, GiGi is. She is probably one of the most beautiful women I have ever met and I am quite certain that you would agree if you make it out to the next Wasabassco show (on Friday, August 8, at the Living Room Lounge in Brooklyn). GiGi is perfectly complimented by her partner in sexy and the mastermind behind The New Monday Night Burlesque, the debonair and ever so swanky Doc Wasabassco.

The New Monday Night Burlesque is broken up into segments: Go-Go dancing starts the evening, at 9pm Jonny Porkpie hosts the Fresh Face Showcase, at 10pm the Main Event, and at midnight GiGi La Femme hostesses Monday Night Blue. The Fresh Face Showcase features women new to the burlesque scene, new to the NY burlesque scene, or veteran performers trying out new personae. This week's showcase featured Fetchin' Gretchen, Leta le Noir, Veronika Vroom, and Vikki Likkerish. Fetchin' Gretchen performed a very seductive, extremely sensual fan dance to begin the show (if you don't count Jonny Porkpie's fantastic, alcohol-laced, boylesque act which preceded that is), and Vikki Likkerish, who I totally have a crush on now, presented a sexy meets adorable performance of how to make muffins on a burlesquer's budget.

At 10pm, some of the most recognizable names in NY burlesque took the stage. The Main Event featured Dirty Martini, GiGi La Femme, Madame Rosebud, Sapphire Jones, and Tigger!. Dirty Martini performed her wonderful Garden of Eden dance and Sapphire Jones absolutely delighted the crowd during her two performances. All of the performers were beautifully entrancing.

Thanks to Precious Little and Bastard Keith for joining me to hoot and holler our way through the tantalizing evening. With a bevy of beauties and handsome gentlemen, a mix of new-comers and distinguished NY performers, the New Monday Night Burlesque is sure to please.