Mondo Burlesque

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Theatre at Harrah’s New Orleans
8pm

Mistress of Ceremonies CORA VETTE (Denver, CO)  aka Reyna Von Vett, performed for more than one million guests over three years as Tanya in Mamma Mia! at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. She runs a burlesque company called BurlyCute Presents. She has written two burlesque musicals, the critically acclaimed Victorian Comic Burlesque Operetta, Leadville or BUST! and a Pot Opera called Reefer Mania: Denver’s Gone To Pot. As Cora Vette, she is your naughty hostess with the mostest. She is clad mostly in sparkle vinyl clothing that she makes herself creating costumes that have the longevity of a car seat and are ready for thousands of rear-end hours that she can happily provide. Cora Vette: Mouth of a sailor - Voice of an angel.

CATHERINE D’LISH (Seattle, WA) has earned a reputation as a contemporary “striptease virtuoso” with her unusually inventive shows performed in an elegant and whimsical style. She has headlined in varied venues from Las Vegas casinos, nightclubs and fetish events, to the top gentlemen’s clubs and theaters. Catherine has competed in, and won nearly every pageant and title available to striptease performers, holding over thirty titles such as Miss Nude USA, World’s Performer of the Year, Miss Erotic World, Showgirl of the Year, Miss Exotic America, Miss Nude International, USA’s Best Shows, Miss Exotic World, and the Burlesque Hall of Fame.
SYDNI DEVERAUX “The Golden Glamazon” (Seattle, WA) has performed internationally and in such acclaimed shows such as the Amsterdam Burlesque Festival, The Slipper Room, Moisture Festival, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Tease-o-Rama and the Burlesque Hall of Fame. With exotic features, at a statuesque 6′2″, she is one of the tallest established performers in the business. Sydni’s charming performance style is an entertaining mix of wit, finesse, and sophisticated musicality.
ANGI B. LOVELY (Dallas, TX) From professional ballroom dancer to stripteuse, to fire performer, Angi B Lovely is a powerhouse of skill, enticing audiences everywhere with her smart and sexy acts. She is a founding member of The Lollie Bombs, which produces one of Dallas’ longest running burlesque shows. The Lollie Bombs won Best Troupe of the Year in 2008 at the Texas Burlesque Festival and Troupe of the Year in 2009 at the Hot Rods and Heels festival. Angi is a frequent guest headliner for Viva Dallas, and is a member of the burlesque company, The Ruby Revue. In addition to her titillating striptease, Angi B Lovely is an accomplished aerial artist, having performed at both the New Orleans Burlesque Festival  and the Dallas Burlesque Festival. Angi B Lovely has been recognized many times for her art, having won Audience Choice and Best Soloist at the Texas Burlesque Festival in 2010, and she was also a nominee for Performer of the Year at the Hot Rods and Heels Festival in both 2010 and 2011.
MISS ORCHID MEI (Denver, CO) gracefully combines traditional Chinese dance with influences from classic burlesque femme fatales.  Favored for her class and grace, but paramount for her ribbon fans, Orchid takes the stage draped in hand made vintage glamour inspired costumes that are meticulously inlaid with Swarovski rhinestones from the inside out. Winning the title “Most Beautiful 2007” and “Most Classic 2010” at the Boston Burlesque Exposition, being featured in Jane Briggeman’s second book dedicated to the legends of burlesque; “BURLESQUE:  A Living History”, and having done shows for Cointreau, Mumm, and the Dresden Dolls, Miss Orchid has left audiences agape internationally, from coast to coast, and back up a mile high.
AGENT LYNCH (London, England), the burlesque bombshell and pin-up and all round 60s aficiondo, has been a firm favourite of the Burlesque scene for the past 4 years. A circuit fixture in her native London she also performs regularly in Paris, Milan and accross Europe.  Famous for her inventive espionage, Barbarella and iconic 6os and 70s routines she has danced her way around Bollywood, performed for Rock royalty (Queen) and starred in music promos for bands such as Elbow, Tricky and The Enemy. She is also Producer of Studio 64 Cabaret events. This modern day Bond Girl is so smokin’ hot she may just self destruct!
SAMMICH THE TRAMP (St. Louis, MO) is a wandering hobo and lovable scamp. Sammich has performed at Bonnaroo, The Burlesque Hall of Fame, Michelle L’amour’s Belles and Whistles, Bustout Burlesque, Panty Raid, The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Best of Midwest Burlesque, The Toronto Burlesque Festival, and has opened for Beats Antique and The Yard Dogs Road Show. Sammich has made a home in St. Louis and performs frequently in Lola Van Ella productions, is an organizer of the Show-Me Burlesque Festival, and has teamed up with Lola to produce the wildly popular Beggar’s Carnivale, which Sammy directs. Sammich the Tramp tours regularly, performs full-time, and will work for food… especially sammiches!
DONNA TOUCH (Chicago, IL) Over two years ago, Donna Touch’s love of dance, wild creativity, drive to learn, and disciplined nature, led her to the perfect outlet – Burlesque! Since then she’s performed in the Viva Las Vegas burlesque competition in 2010 and 2011, voted #34 in The Burlesque Top 50 of 2010 presented by 21st Century Burlesque, performed in the Windy City Burlesque Fest and the Reno Rockabilly Riot, and produced the burlesque show for 3 years as part of the Indy Road Rocket Rumble. Remember… you can look, but Donna Touch!
MISS STORMY GAYLE (Los Angeles, CA) is a trained and experienced model, actress, and dancer whose love for burlesque is undeniable. She is a New Orleans native, and an original member of Bustout Burlesque. She started her burlesque career on Bourbon Street in the Crazy Horse-inspired show, La Revue. She recently performed at the 2011 Ink & Iron Festival on the Queen Mary. She portrayed Marilyn Monroe for the Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio exhibit, also on board the Queen Mary.  In film, Stormy portrayed Jason Priestley’s mistress in the film Snow Wonder, a striptease dancer in Faith of My Fathers, a Hooters girl in Meet the Spartans, and “Adrianna” in Love, Wedding, Marriage.
KITTEN ON THE KEYS (San Francisco, CA) aka Suzanne Ramsey, has been seen on E!, HBO,IFC, NBC,  Queer TV, Bravo, MTV, and on countless French and Italian TV shows. She embodies the spirit and style of those days of decadence gone by. Pianist,, singer, and Mistress of Ceremonies – expect a racy ragtime romp when this little kitty sharpens her claws on a meow mix medley of mad cap gems from yesteryear with a naughty whimsical edge.  She’s toured internationally, plus opened for legendary punk band The Damned, toured with the Teaseorama Roadshow, MC’d for the Burlesque Hall of Fame, and returns to emcee the New Orleans Burlesque Fest for its second year. She recently performed with Cabaret New Burlesque in the French film “TOURNEE” with award-winning actor and director Mattieu Almaric (2010). The film was an official entry at the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival where it won a best director Palme D’or, and the Foreign Press Award. Kitten was pleased as punch to walk the red carpet with the rest of the cast. She has several of her ukulele and piano tunes on the film’s soundtrack.
LUCKY DELUXE (Los Angeles, CA) Calling to mind a modern-day Mae West, Lucky DeLuxe clearly speaks her mind, tickling her audiences with a combination of sharp-wit and teasing sensuality. She brings a bevy of sass and seduction to every performance. She was instrumental in the resurgence of professional burlesque-based variety productions in Kansas City and the main emcee for their branch of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School from 2008-10. She is the premier entertainer currently integrating burlesque routines into her stand-up comedy shows, introducing burlesque into main stream comedy clubs. Her one woman show, “Cabaret DeLuxe”, which uniquely blended her standup comedy with burlesque and live jazz, ran for 11 months at Jardine’s Jazz Club in Kansas City; and her touring burlesque show, “Lucky’s DeLuxe Giggle-n-Grind”, tickles audiences nationwide.
KRISTINA NEKYIA (Los Angeles, CA) Erupting from the molten core of California’s arts inferno, Kristina Nekyia burns bright across the star-studded skies of stage and screen. Showgrrrl, belly dancer, circus contortion dancer, burlesque queen, pin up nymph, actress, fire eater, director, and writer, she is a Renaissance Femme in the technicolor world of show. Kristina was the 2010 First Runner-Up for the title of Queen of Burlesque at the Burlesque Hall of Fame competition in Las Vegas, and in 2005 she was the Hips of Fury Belly Dance Ultimate Soloist. Her dedication to the art of Mongolian contortion led her to study with the Mongolian Circus in Ulaanbaatar, and develop the first ever belly dance contortion fire duet with world-famous contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. She is an instructor at Cirque School LA in Hollywood, and is producing a new burlesque show in West Hollywood.
GIN MINSKY (New York, NY) is one half of New York’s famed 1920s tapping sensations, the Minsky Sisters. Gin started hitting the stage with taps on her feet at the tender age of five and hasn’t looked back since. Gin got her start as a classically trained dancer studying jazz, ballet, pointe, tap and modern – but tap seemed to stick as she and her sister, Kristen, hit the back streets of New York working every cabaret and vaudeville show in town. With a short skirt and shorter hair, this flapper has been appearing all over New York, dolled up and charming crowds. This hoofer also taps coast-to-coast, doing the Charleston in Los Angeles, twirling tassels in Providence, and flappin’ everywhere in between.
THE BON-BONS (St. Louis, MO) are a delicious troupe out of St. Louis dedicated to glitz, glam and old fashioned show girl charm. Led by Lola van Ella and consisting of her most advanced students, The Bon-Bons are sure to delight with clever, adorable and sassy choreographed pieces and always shine with focus on personality, individuality and always giving their flirtatious best!  The Bon-Bons perform often in St. Louis and have been a part of the first and second annual New Orleans Burlesque Festival, The Best of Midwest Burlesk Festival and have performed as a group and individually all over the country.