Leadville or BUST! at the Black Box Burlesque March 13, 2009

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm.
For the first time since the 1930’s a theatre is being built specifically to house burlesque aiming to bring burlesque back while playing homage to the great tradition!

Von Vett will present Leadville or Bust, her tribute to the early history of burlesque, when the sex and scandal was about corsets, tights and bawdy songs (Oh My!). The show garnered widespread acclaim when it was put up for a short run last fall at the Crossroads Theatre in 5-points. A boisterous romp through 1880-1900’s burlesque, Leadville or Bust features songs and jokes reflecting an era the reveled in the double entendre and thought can-can dancers were the height of naughty dancing.

Von Vett and her Hell’s Belles dance and sing in tight harmonies to fun, turn-of-the-century songs like “Ragtime Cowboy Joe,” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and “Seeing Denver” to bawdy songs like “Sam the Hot Dog Man,” “Hot Nuts (Get ‘Em From The Peanut Man),” “Press My Button (Ring My Bell)” and many more…

Official Website: http://blackboxburlesque.com