Burlesque Bits
Uncovering burlesque’s almost-lost performers, vanished theatres, buried stories… even the uncomfortable history we’d rather forget.
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"Who Would Arrest an Overdressed Stripper?"
In this bit…
A burlesque impresario hires an overdressed stripper as a practical joke... A vice crusader takes the bait and raids her debut performance. The morning-after arrest produces headlines, marriage proposals, and a humiliating cou...
The Night SWAT Came to The Five Spot
Courtesy of Tracey Todd Superstar
In this bit…. It’s the First Saturday of the month of June 2001. If you spent any time at The Five Spot in Old City Philadelphia in the early 2000s, you might remember, or at least have heard about, the ni...
CALL ME CONNIE RAY...
WHAT ROSE’S “DISCOVERY” ACTUALLY COST
By late 1936, Rose La Rose had been working the Hirst Circuit. Eight cities in eight weeks, then eight more. The name she hadn’t agreed to was showing up in Billboard routing reports, in theater ad...
Philadelphia 100 Years Ago: Flophouses, Sterno, and the Burlesque Theaters of 8th Street
In this bit: A funeral notice appears in the Philadelphia Inquirer on January 12, 1930.
It reads Hugh Peter Deady had died at age 32, (32?!) leaving behind two brothers well-known in Philadelphia’s sporting and theatrical circles.
Let's...
THE 15 YEAR OLD WHO GOT A NAME SHE DIDN'T WANT
In this bit: It’s 1934… and while the country struggles through the Depression, a fifteen-year-old girl from Little Italy leaves school to work as a cashier at Minsky's Republic Theatre. She sees a stripper's paycheck and does the math.
B...
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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.
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