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Friday May 23rd 8:00pm
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Saturday May 24th 8:00pm
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Sunday May 25th 8:00pm
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CONEY ISLAND USA
1208 Surf Ave, Brooklyn
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 that made the People’s Playground so famous! 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! Classic comedy meets carny meets the ol' bump-n-grind in this burlesque tribute to the Marx Brothers. This madcap frolic returns to kick off the Coney Island USA Burlesque at the Beach weekly summer season with another 3 night run.
Featuring Miss Coney Island winners Frankie Eleanor and Gigi Bonbon, burlesque stars Dutch Baby, Peekaboo Pointe, Susie Dahl, and starring Jonny Porkpie, Lady Scoutington, and Tigger! as the "Siblings", with special appearance by Coney Island USA artistic director Adam Realman and author of The Burlesque Handbook Jo Weldon, A Day on the Boardwalk, A Night at the Stripshow is a hilarious journey into the Coney Island of yesteryear... which turns out to be not so different from today.
"A hilarious hoot!" - Trav SD, author of No Applause, Just Send Money, The Book that Made Vaudeville Famous , on Travelanche
"Demented and joyful... made me want to watch their films again" - Elyssa Maxx Goodman, author of Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City , on Miss Manhattan
PLUS! Make Saturday 5/24 into Marxday with additional Marx events in the Coney Island Museum, in association with Marxfest. 1:00pm: The Cocoanuts... in 3D! It's the Marx Bros very first movie, in 3D for the very first time (NYC Premiere); 3:00pm The Marx Brothers vs. The Man : a panel discussion with Noah Diamond of the Marx Brothers Council Podcast, Jennifer Miller of Circus Amok, vaudeville author and Travalanche blogger Trav S.D., author/actress/astrologer Kathy Biehl, and historian Steve Jaffee; 5:00pm You Brett Your Life, Marx Bros Trivia !
