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News and Events => Arts & Entertainment News => Topic started by: Natasha on September 22, 2008, 05:27:42 PM

Title: Showbiz! Burlesque emerges from New York shadows
Post by: Natasha on September 22, 2008, 05:27:42 PM
Showbiz! Burlesque emerges from New York shadows

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h2x8r8U5awx7fHsLIyvMbm53XEUw (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h2x8r8U5awx7fHsLIyvMbm53XEUw)
9/22/2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — All you know for sure about Murray Hill is that his
name is probably not Murray Hill -- oh, and that he may not be a he.

At New York's oldest surviving burlesque show there is little point in
feeling sure about anything.

The lights are dim, the wasp-waisted cocktail glasses brimming, and
the orientation, even gender, of performers and the few dozen guests
crammed into the tiny theater open to speculation.