Girlie-Q Productions presents Burnin' Down the Trailer Park April 9, 2009

Join Girlie-Q for this next installment of our fabulously popular monthly burlesque shows, when we do our first CUNT-RY experiment! Expect lots of boot-scoots-n-boogy-ing, cowboy hats, and rope tricks (wink). Featuring musical guests the True Historians and burlesque's hottest cast of beers, steers, queers n' hetero eye candy.

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
9:00pm
@ Betty's Blue Star Lounge
1600 W. Grand,
Chicago, IL 60622
$10 cover.

Hosted by Chicago burlesque's dyke darling, Ms. Bea Haven, Girlie-Q is guaranteed to titillate, scandalize, entertain...and make you think.

Starring: Bizarre Sally, Cruel Valentine, Dee Dee & Irma, Dizzy Lizzy Delicious, Faustina von Feist, Goddess Feral, Lyra Belecqua, Maria the Purple Goddess, Petite Moll, Salome Slaughter, and
Sauda Namir!

And introducing, in their Girlie-Q PREMIERES: Ezra Poundable, Plucky Rosenthal, and Viva La Muerte.

Sponsored by Vavoom Pinups, Labrys Chicago & The Pleasure Chest

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Girlie-Q Productions is the latest, greatest incarnation of the series of Girlie-Q shows produced and directed by Jeanne Theresa Newman, aka Ms. Bea Haven. With a keen curatorial eye, high production values, and a queer campy sensibility, Girlie-Q brings performance that titillates, entertains, and makes you think. Our shows have been in production since 2003, making them the among the longest-running in Chicago today.

Featuring some of the edgiest burlesque, modern dance, live music, and variety performance in town, the Girlie-Q is the alternative to mainstream burlesque. The show mixes drag, striptease, dance, comedy and radical sexual art with "lowbrow" performance interests. They regularly dig up the strange, the bizarre and the fantastic for an unforgettable evening.

Press for Girlie-Q
"Straight audiences bored with vanilla strip tease will not be disappointed...If you like burlesque and you're not boring, check out a queer show. It's funnier, dirtier, and the main course is still mams and gams!"
-Being Totally Sweet in ChicagoPress for

Time Out Critic's Pick

Metromix/Red Eye's Best Bets (for things to do that day)1/5/08, 5/10/08, 6/28/08, 10/11/08, 2/7/09

Metromix/Red Eye's Best Bets for Pride 2008

"...providing bawdy fun for a sophisticated crowd"
The L Word, Metromix.com

"My number one choice is Girlie-Q."
Chicago Theater Critic Johnathan Abarbanel on

"For the very adult!" Lin Bremer, Bremer's Best, WXRT-FM

"Great Energy! Bravo!...Highly Recommended"
-Ray's Guide to Chicago Area Burlesque

FOR THE STRAIGHTS:
"One note about queer burlesque for the straight and uninitiated: the acts may sometimes have feminist overtones, but they still consist of sexy women (sometimes more than one!) taking their clothes off and should be anticipated more than feared."-Ray's Guide to Chicago Area Burlesque

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/girlieqproductions