Burlesque Bits
Burlesque Bits, B.O.O.B.S.Uncovering burlesque’s almost-lost performers, vanished theatres, buried stories… even the uncomfortable history we’d rather forget.
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Something for Nothing
In This Bit... you’re in Central Police Court, Pittsburgh.
It is Saturday… October, 1951.
Two young ladies from The Casino burlesque theatre’s chorus line sit at the rail. One stares HARD off to the left as if to say “Fuckin’ Maria….” T...
Just Moved Their Bodies Around
In This Bit… You’re in the first row of the balcony at the Old Howard. It’s the matinee, Tuesday, October 27, 1953. The stage is about fifty feet away.
Rose La Rose is on the bill this week with Penny Page and Betty Jo Morgan. The comics a...
Stripped of Everything But Her Name
In this Bit... a friend sends you a page from a 95-year-old copy of Variety and tells you to look in the lower-left corner.
The friend is , burlesque writer, director, performer & historian. “The Burlesque Mayor of New York City” currently...
In That Way, She Lives On
I opened my YouTube app and this was staring right at me... And all the feelings hit hard again. There are people who perform... and then, there are people who leave a mark on everyone lucky enough to share a stage with them.
Melissa "Bang...
The Magna Cum Laude Playgirl: Libby Jones
For more than a decade, a slim little paperback titled Striptease had been quietly hiding on my bookshelf. I’d picked it up years ago, filed it away among the rest of my burlesque library as a future read, and, somehow, never really got aro...
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I’m a self-proclaimed burlesque historian, storyteller, creator of BurlesqueBits.blog, co-founder of The award winning "Peek-a-Boo Revue", and a seeker of the sexy, not-so-sexy, and half-forgotten stories still hiding in those burlesque wings.
The Bureau of Official Burlesque Secrets. Per Regulation 3, certain files are released to the public once their seal expires. We did not write the regulation. Questions regarding Regulations 1 and 2 will not be answered.
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