by Franco Milazzo | Apr 25, 2012 | Variety
This year’s Burger Queen was a five-week, four-heat, free-falling, too-good-to-be-true, wonderous affair. The contest championing plus-size talent across the capital and beyond was like a box of Quality Street chocs with the cheap caramels taken out: you never...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 24, 2012 | Reviews, Variety
Put down that pot of healthy bio-yogurt and check this out: not everyone wants to be thin. Shocking, we know, but TIC columnist Scottee has never been one to adhere to society’s rules. The second year of his Burger Queen contest at the Royal Vauxhall Taven was a...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Apr 24, 2012 | Reviews
If you like your cheesecake with a hearty side of laughter, you’ll be swayed by An Evening of Burlesque. The touring show has introduced some of London’s finest variety performers to British and continental audiences. Record-breaking sell-out dates have greeted the...
by Guilherme Zühlke O'Connor | Apr 24, 2012 | Photos, Variety
If Handel at Christmas, Swan Lake on ice and large orchestras is what comes to your mind when you think of the Royal Albert Hall, think again. Last weekend the Boom Boom Club took over the Elgar Room, bringing one of the most exciting cabaret shows in London to a...
by This Is Cabaret | Apr 23, 2012 | Variety
When did you last hear of cabaret at the Royal Albert Hall? That’s exactly what The Boom Boom Club did last Saturday. Taking over the Elgar Room of the prestigious venue, the seminal revue delivered a top-of-the-range show that revamped their dark and decadent format...
by Myra DuBois | Apr 23, 2012 | Variety
Hiya. Let’s get down to business. Speaking frankly, I’ve been around the block. London may be in the midst of a Cabaret (with a C) boom right now, and I love Kander and Ebb as much as the next person, but I can pre-date that. I’ve been in show-business for years. I...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 22, 2012 | Burlesque, Previews
There is no doubt that burlesque is an artform and now it is being explored by an even older form of expression. On May 3, A Brush With Burlesque opens in the East Gallery, Brick Lane. A ideal daytime complement to the upcoming World Burlesque Games, the exhibition...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Apr 22, 2012 | Reviews
Lurid and ominous, The Double R Club has scarred the face of London variety since 2009 with a unique style of cabaret and burlesque inspired by the films of David Lynch. When the lights grow dim and the smoke machine kicks in at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club,...
by C.J. Lazaretti | Apr 19, 2012 | Burlesque, Previews
If your bosom swells with patriotic pride in anticipation for the London Olympic Games…go blow a couple of grand on their tickets. Proud bosoms of another kind will be the order of the day when the World Burlesque Games kick in next month. Honouring the Olympic spirit...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 18, 2012 | Musical Comedy
This summer, the his ‘n’ hers of twisted pop will be back to tweak more musical nipples at upside-down purple cow that is Udderbelly. They’ve already had a go at the metaphorical mammaries of Lily Allen, Noel Coward, The Bangles and Andrew Lloyd...
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