Midwinter.

[earlofgrey]

The other night I saw the Big Mess Cabaret at the Trocodaro, the former burlesque house and the only nineteenth century theatre still in operation in the country. Drag queens! Dancing girls! Strip teases! Adaptations of biblical texts! A drunken orchestra! The auctioning off of articles of clothing! There were vaudevillian performers who snuck into

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[daveax]

The Trocadero has a marvelously chequered history. It was originally an opera house, competing with the long-shuttered Met over on North Broad Street.

I was a teen during the hall's burleycue heyday, and still remember the ads for it in the local papers. They used the same set of strippers every week, and just gave them new names based on current events. My two favorites were Miss Luna Landing, who performed in the week after the "...giant step for mankind..." and May O'Rizzo, who appeared the week after you-know-who won his first election.

[earlofgrey]

Ha! That's excellent.