Lili Marleen, the german bombshell entertaining the Viennese Burlesque afficionados with Marie la Catastrophe and their Les deux étoiles burlesque show.
Chicago... had a fierce pioneer gaiety that enlivened the senses, yet underlying it throbbed masculine loneliness. Counteracting this somatic ailment was a national distraction known as the burlesque show, consisting of a coterie of rough-and-tumble comedians supported by twenty or more chorus girls. Some were pretty, others shopworn. Some of the comedians were funny, most of the shows were smutty harem comedie coarse and cynical affairs. --Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography: 125-6
Today New Burlesque has taken many forms, but all have the common trait of honoring one or more of burlesque's previous incarnations, with acts including striptease, expensive costumes, bawdy humor, cabaret and more.
Lili Marleen and Marie La Catastrophe are the best proof of this active contemporary scene.
Phoenix Supperclub
Lerchenfelder Straße 35, 1070 Vienna, Austria
http://www.myspace.com/414466469
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