HeyJaredBurlesque Bits
Uncovering burlesque’s almost-lost performers, vanished theatres, buried stories… even the uncomfortable history we’d rather forget.
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Just Moved Their Bodies Around (opens the original)
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In This Bit… You’re in the first row of the balcony at the Old Howard. It’s the matinee, Tuesday, October 27, 1953. The stage is about fifty feet away.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="600" src="https://substackcdn.
Stripped of Everything But Her Name (opens the original)
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In That Way, She Lives On (opens the original)
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I opened my YouTube app and this was staring right at me... And all the feelings hit hard again. There are people who perform... and then, there are people who leave a mark on everyone lucky enough to share a stage with them.Melissa "Bang Bang" Forgione was one of those people. Like a magical unicorn.She was fearless, WILDLY creative, endlessly funny, and ALWAYS LATE TO REHEARSALS, MELISSA! LOL Yet somehow she made the impossible look... effortless. Whether she was choreographing, sewing costume
The Magna Cum Laude Playgirl: Libby Jones (opens the original)
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For more than a decade, a slim little paperback titled Striptease had been quietly hiding on my bookshelf. I’d picked it up years ago, filed it away among the rest of my burlesque library as a future read, and, somehow, never really got around to opening it. During a recent round of rearranging bookshelves and furniture, I spotted it wedged between a stack of much thicker volumes of books and pulled it free.At barely eighty pages, I figured it would be a quick afternoon read. More than anything,
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