Should have had Venus De Light in the show. That was Dita Von Teese’s idol and a huge burlesque star that starred in several Las Vegas shows in the 80’s and 90’s and was famous for her life- sized Dummy Act (Burlesque X did a tribute to her in May of this year) and famous for her dancing her personality, humor, Beauty, multiple champagne bath acts, fire eating, snakes, monkey, revolving stage and pyrotechnics and her own Light show, featured in HBO’S Real Sex 5. and Playboys Girls of Rock and Roll. She was the burlesque Queen until Dita Von Teese married a rock and now history was rewritten. Even the Burlesque Hall Of Fame is fake. They have one costume of Venus De Light and barely mention her contributions to Burlesque for two decades.
]]>I came all the way from Europe too see this show and it was absolutely worth it. Dita is not on stage all the time but consistently. Never feels like she’s gone too long and she obviously has to change costumes. She’s absolutely stunning and has a great stage presence. I’m coming back for her show at the Voltaire and I can’t wait!
]]>One of the performers who has been in every DvT show that I’ve seen is Dirty Martini. Why is she in all the shows? Because people want to see her! Her style is old-school burlesque–no props, just striptease. And tassel twirling. There’s an annual ranking of the top 50 burlesque performers, and she is consistently in the top ten. So, with her being one of the best burlesque performers out there, and one that people want to see, why would it seem odd that she’s mentioned in a lot of the reviews of the show? It would be odd if she wasn’t mentioned!
They will all land on their feet. Miss Martini is busy back in NYC, Miss von Teese was performing in Paris a few days ago, and from what I heard from chatting to one of “her people” after the Vegas show, plans are already afoot for the next big show.
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