JONNY
PORKPIE
"The Burlesque Mayor of NYC"
"The Burlesque Mayor of NYC"
A burlesque performer, emcee, writer, and producer, Jonny has penned and produced almost 50 burlesque plays, including Off-Broadway productions of Pretençión: un burlesque de cirque , The Bawdy House , and Dead Sexy (returning from the grave in October)—which have been lauded as the “Best Burlesque” in NYC by New York Magazine and the Village Voice. His burlesque gameshow toured to over 30 cities in 5 countries on 3 continents. His current obsession is researching burlesque in 1937, the year the word was banned from NYC.
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Friday October 30
at Unicorn Bar, Kingston NY
What do you get when you cross two neo-vaudevillians—who have been infusing classic comedy with contemporary sensibilities since 2014—with seductive superstars performing their most sidesplitting stripteases? A night of hilarious sexiness (and sexy hilarity) that could only be called
FLAPDOODLE!
12 Years Ago, two burlesque emcees took the stage together for the first time at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Reunion:
Blanche DeBris
, "American treasure, always high class" and
Jonny Porkpie
, the burlesque mayor of New York City. Now, they're together again, and bringing their trademark brand of humor and nudity to the world.
"The best comedic retro-vaudeville act we’ve seen in forevs."
—J.D. Oxblood, Burlesque Beat
"You didn’t need to be a fan of Abbott & Costello, or even know of the legendary comedy team, to laugh at this rekindling of this classic routine."
- Las Vegas Review Journal
A Historical Whodunnit
Dateline: 1937!
Striptease brought burlesque down, or so they say, but who brought striptease to burlesque? Which devilish disrober introduced undressing to that stage? 12 stripping suspects stand accused, over three decades, of the crime that would lay burlesque low.
It's the greatest mystery of burlesque: who brought striptease to the stage? Burlesque investigator Jonny Porkpie delves deep into decades of newspaper archives, trade publications, burlesque memorabilia, vintage ads and promo materials, memoirs, films, police reports, court records, and obituaries from the Jazz Age to the Gilded Age to uncover the culprit in this revealing and entertaining talk.
Available soon as a monograph!
Dateline: 1938!
After shutting down NY’s striptease shows, an ambitious city official turns his prudish attentions to Coney Island, scheming to terminate the 10-in-1, the thrill rides, the midway games, and everything else the People’s Playground is famous for! It’s up to the Flim Flam Sideshow's house doctor, a boardwalk grifter, and a suspiciously silent merchant of wieners to thwart the pernicious politico … with burlesque! This new madcap frolic in the Marxian vein kicks off the Burlesque at the Beach 2024 season with an unprecedented 3 night run as part of MarxFest 2024.
As Harpo — who made his stage debut in Coney Island! — said: "Burlesque is a legitimate form of show business. It’s the audience that perverts it."
Classic comedy meets carny meets the ol' bump-n-grind in this burlesque tribute to the Marx Brothers.
Glamorous ghouls, titillating terrors, and flirtatious fiends haunt the stage of a diabolical doctor’s Evil Laboratory and Cabaret Space, where the sinister scientist, their aberrant assistant, and a vicious intern conduct erotic experiments in striptease to reawaken a dearly departed love from the flaming depths of the Nether Regions.
Bump and grind meets Hammer Horror in the bewitching burlesque play DEAD SEXY, a twisted and titillating tale of love, death, striptease, and everything in between. Starring a killer cast of frighteningly attractive, monstrously talented, disturbingly seductive burlesque stars. Never have the undead been quite so alluringly unclothed.
Brace yourself for a frighteningly seductive night of theater of that's equal parts blood 'n' gore -- and bump 'n’ grind!
"Will scare you, seduce you, and make you laugh harder than you have in ages!" - TheFrontRowCenter.com
Welcome to The
Filthy Lucre
, where the cover charge is exorbitant, the drinks are watered down, and management steals the performers' tips. What sort of money-grubbing miser would run a "Gentleman's Club" like this? Who else but
Scrooge?
When the scantily-clad spirit of her former business partner returns from the grave, the "nudest Scrooge in history" goes on a tassel-twirling journey with the Ghosts of Burlesque Past, Present, and Future. Will this haunting bump-and-grind-through-time help bitter Ebeneza see the error of her exploitative ways? Of course it will. You know the story, but you've never seen it quite like this.
"
Nudest Scrooge in history
... perhaps this 'Christmas Carol' isn't the best choice for the kiddies." -
The New York Times
"
If you like your spiritual redemption stories
perked up with pasties and tassels
, this is the
Carol
for you." -
Time Out New York
"
Heartwarming, scantily clad
rendering of the old standby... a lively evening of entertainment." -Bob Krasner,
The Villager
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