Vixen Variety Show

Thursday night I had the pleasure of checking out the Palace of Wonders.  It is a divey, old school, punk retro kind of place.  (hopefully that didn’t sound too pretentious)   I went with my friend Troy Cool, yes that is his real name, who is a wonderful fine art model and really cool guy.  It was smaller than I expected with a nice bar area, little stage, and very cool small upstairs where you can also view the stage.  The crowd there was very small, but very hilarious.  Some of the women hecklers were fantastic.  GOOD heckling might be one of my favorite things ever, I am just not very good at it.  But anyway, the decor was very cool too, it was what you would expect a burlesque club to look like.  Lots of dark reds and dark woods, with freak show and human oddity souvenirs all over the walls.

I went to see the Vixen’s Variety Show.  I didn’t know what to expect, but was impressed.  It was very comfortable to be in the crowd there and very easy to love the acts.  It was my first time seeing a black burlesque performer as well, Miss Private tales. She and Lil’ Dutch were definitely the highlights of the evening for me.  Their first two acts were very good, one to a chicago medley, the other to a sleazy lounge version of Brass Monkey.  But their second acts were fantastic and very very funny.  Private tales portrayed herself as an old woman singing the song “if i can’t sell it, i’ll keep sitting on it”  that lends itself perfectly to burlesque.  You have to check it out.  Then Lil’ Dutch decided to turn into the Poultry Queen dancing in white feathers and yellow stockings to the chicken dance.  Her facial expressions are fantastic and watching her lay eggs was well worth the 10 dollar cover.  In the words of Troy “we’ll never be able to go to a wedding reception again.”

The other acts were also very entertaining.  New to the monthly Vixen’s Variety was Laura Ernst who was a beautiful juggler. She had a very impressive act to 99 Red Balloons. 

The rest of the acts consisted of very talented belly dancers Samantha and BellaDonna, both who were very talented.  BellaDonna performed twice to a more traditional song with fire which was very impressive, and then a smashing pumpkins song, both really showed what she could do.  If I could get as low as her I would never have a problem being single.

All in all, it was a really entertaining night.  I really encourage you to check it out and be as sassy, heckling, money throwing, and raunchy as you want.  Gotta love activities that foster that kind of behavior.