Wednesday, November 5, 2014

'ZOMBIE BURLESQUE'

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com


LESS THAN A HALF HOUR OUT OF THE SHOW ....SO THIS REVIEW ...HOT !


HARD TO SAY YOU HAVE EVER HEARD THE WORDS 'ZOMBIE BURLESQUE'...TOGETHER......SORT OF LIKE "NUDES ON ICE"....THE LONG FORGOTTON PLAZA SHOWROOM SEMI SPECTACULAR.


THIS A NEW "DAVID SAXE" PRODUCTION AND HAVING ALWAYS BEEN A SAXE FAN...I CAN REINFORCE THE THOUGHT WITH THE COMMITTMENT....CREATIVITY AND JUST BASHNESS OF THIS THEME.
FOLLOWING AS ALWAYS RANDOM THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS...


I LIKED IT.....TEN SHOWS A WEEK IN AN UPSTAIRS VENUE IN THE MORASS OF SAXE THEATRES AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD...LAS VEGAS STRIP.


75 MINUTES.....TIGHT....STARTED ON TIME....ALWAYS GOOD.


THE BIG DOWNER HERE WAS...."KILL THE DRUMMER"....THEY WROTE SOME REAL CLEVER SMART ASS SONGS WITH LYRICS OVERPOWERED BY BACK GROUND NOISE....LOTS OF THIS JUST NOISE WHEN IT COULD HAVE BEEN SONG......7 LIVE MUSICIANS....8 DANCERS....FABULOUS COSTUMES AND LOTS OF THEM....SOME NICE PROPS AND LOTS OF COLOR AND SEXUAL INUENDOS....REAL AND IMAGINED.


A GREAT PAS DE DEUX TOWARDS THE END WITH CELLO  AND STRING QUARTET(AMBER SNOW AND ANTENOR DA SILVA)...SHOW STOPPER FOR ME.AND A MAGNIFICENT CONTORSIONIST....REMARKABLE....I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS TYPE OF SPECIALITY ACT.... THE FINAL TWO NUMBERS GOOD FOR THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.


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ASSUMED I WOULD NOT BE IMPRESSED.....I WAS WRONG ....THANKS TO THE CREATIVITY AND JUST STICHK....


IT WAS TOO LOUD...EVERYTHING IS.....


I HAD TO LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF ZOMBIE.....
The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi".[2] The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words "nzambi" (god) and "zumbi" (fetish).


I HAD TO LOO UP THE DEFINITON OF BURLESQUE...
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.[1] The word derives from the Italian burlesco, which, in turn, is derived from the Italian burla – a joke, ridicule or mockery.     ......MIX EM UP....THATS WHAT WE HAVE HERE.


THIS SHOW OPENED IN JANUARY FOR 183 SHOWS BEFORE OFFICIALLY OPENING NOW.....CHOREOGRAPHER TIGER MARTINA HAS BLENDED THE DANCERS INTO AT TIGHT DIDN'T MISS A STEP EFFORT IN THIS CABARET TYPE 200 SEAT THEATRE....SOLD OUT TONIGHT.


TITS AND ASS ALWAYS GOOD....PASTIES HERE...LOTS OF BUMP AND GRAND AT 70 I AM SURE I AM THE OLDEST TO HAVE SEEN THIS....BUT OF COURSE THATS DAMN NEAR TRUE EVERYWHERE !


TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF COSTUME CHANGES AND THEY ALL WORKED.


SILK ACROBATICS.....STRIPPER POLE (WONDERFULLY ATHLETIC) AND REAR-SCREEN VIDEO WERE WELL MIXED INTO THE SHOW...ESPECIALLY THE OPENING SEQUENCE.




HARD TO GRADE THIS....LOUDNESS AND OVERPOWERING OF LYRICS KILL A PERFECT SCORE....


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