Many have seen Burlesque, few have lived to tell the tale. Recently, I was given the opportunity to experience the unadulterated wonder of 99% male and female nudity firsthand at the Shepherdstown Opera House. The format for the show developed over the course of nearly a dozen short comedy sketches ranging from dancing in lobster costumes, stripping out of treasure chests (thus wearing only pasties), and flashlight dance numbers in the dark.
The beauty of this show lies in the performances by artists as they dance and lip sing to song by other musicians. Never are they hooked up to mics, readily belting out notes. Rather, the performing artists are bound to their musical selections, choreographing intense dancing sequences involving swinging through the air while hanging on curtains, stripping down to man-thongs, and flipping around the stage. The acts are purely physical, purely aesthetic in design. Audio is collaborative, rather than defining. It is a show about stripping us down to our aesthetic basics, with only a glitter man-thong in between us and pure nature.
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