Burlesque-A-Pades

It was our first Burlesque show we attended and it was fun entertainment!

I have been to many drag shows, but this was my first burlesque show & this show takes the cake!

As usual, the show was fantastic. This was our 2nd time attending and it was everything we liked about our first time and more. This show was a classy Burlesque with additional hysterical moments that really created a totally creative, enjoyable, and fun evening. Top that off with good food at the Birchmere in a supper club type atmosphere, can't beat that for a nice Valentine's Day treat. Hope to be able to go next year to the show and see them again!

Go see it! Loved it! funny, sexy, entertaining....rev up your tassles and check out Angie and her friends!

Individually, the acts in this show were good, but as a whole, there was much too much repitition. There were dancing strip acts, singing strip acts, and tap dancing strip acts. Maybe three of each. There were two that were really good. The others were just good. The MC shouted into the microphone, but his strip act was better than the ladies'. And I'm a straight man. The jokes were good, but again, too much of the same. The fire-breather had two tricks. He performed them over and over again in different positions at varying degrees of speed. Ho-hum. The ten minute intermission was more like 20 or 25, yet the show was well under two hours start to finish. This act comes to the Birchmere every year, but seeing it once is more than enough.

Burlesque-A-Pades offers a surprising range of entertainment. I have the vague feeling that it's improved over the show I saw at the Birchmere a couple of years ago. ** Keep your eye on the MC -- you will be surprised, I was very pleasantly. What he pulled off with his "card trick" was shortly after I'd suggested something like just that (no spoilers here) and a nice twist to the show. - Ms. Angie P. was a lovely treat in a very classic style; elegant and smooth - Ms. Tickle had several of my group talking. Excellent range -- the teaching book was a scream and the act with the feathers was etheral while still pleasing the man in group alot. - Ms. Helen P. was very game and held her own in the sister number. Its a tough group to compare dance talent with even with tapping addition. - Ms. Melody Sweet - great voice, very distracting costumes, nice looking -- you barely notice that she basically just walks around. Excellent misdirection. - Ms Dangerous -- great dancing but I felt like I'd got trapped with a mime; I would have said it was too arsty and not bouncy enough but a later act played well even with out the bounce -- guess it was just the mime thing for me.