Scenes from "Girlesque"

A couple of Friday nights ago, I attended Girlesque, yet another local burlesque/vaudeville show hosted by my friend, Mysterion the Mind Reader. Here are some photos from the event (they’re all safe for work):

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Ah, the dance of the seven veils!

You can see video of the dance here [4.8MB, QuickTime].

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This poor goth was a bit freaked out by Mysterion’s “PK (psychokinetic)

Touch” trick in which he touches her back while standing across the

stage.

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Mysterion was one of the finalists for a contenst held by the local

alt-rock radio station to find Toronto’s biggest freak. One of the

other finalists, a burly fella by the name of Professor Orbax put on a great show. Here he is, shoving a power drill up his nose:

Here’s Orbax, after havig been wrapped in Saran Wrap by a professional

dominatrix, announcing that he will now attempt to escape as

cross-dressin’ Chris holds the mic (yeah, we have a lot of odd people

here in Accordion City):

I’ve got two video’s of Orbax’s escape from the Saran Wrap:

• Video 1 [4.2MB, QuickTime]
• Video 2 [1.6MB, QuickTime]

And finally, the stomach pump trick. Orbax first drank some yellow

liquid then used the pump (which fed a tube running up his nose and

then down his esophagus) to inject blue liquid into this stomach. He

then used the pump to extract the liquids from his stomach (now a

sickly green) to fill two glasses — one for him and one for Mysterion:

After the show, Mysterion came up to me, grabbed me by the lapels and screamed, “I drank some guy’s BILE, Joey!”

“Sounds like a typical Friday night for you, dude,” I said.

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The show was punctuated with some classic vaudeville humor by the

comedian known to most people only as “The Wolfman”. He’s hilarious,

and he greeted me with a hug after the show. Wolfie, we have to do a

song-and-dance routine for the next show.

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Curtain call! Here are two photos of all the performers taking a bow.

Mysterion was extra-kind that evening: during curtain call he said “I’d

also like to thank Joey deVilla, the Accordion Guy, for attending

tonight — he’s in the audience, but we hope to have him onstage for

the next show. Give it up for Joey!”

Thanks, Mysterion, and yes, I’d love to perform at the next one!