Thank god I made it to Grey Gardens burlesque last night. It was off the hook. Coney Island Burlesque on the Beach basically reenacted the film (using the play soundtrack) with a burlesque twist.
It opened with little Edie doing a striptease in which she takes off one head wrap after another. I was in convulsions. Finally, the Lilly Pulitzer bathing suit comes off and she's got on enormous white underwear with a stain and bunched up pantyhose for pasties.
Tigger was the marble fawn. He stripped for Edie's corn. He pulled a raccoon's tail out of his dirty tighty whiteys and then out of his ass. For the finale he showered in corn.
Little Brooklyn did this number where she was little Edie taking a swim. As she swims she's attacked by a shark. She would go under the water and emerge with these glittery wounds attached to her body.
A skinny french raccoon performed a short monologue and then "a dance plastique that will confuse you." It was like something out of a 1950s American interpretation of France. Very funny.
I hope they revive this one. Brilliant! All of the performers deserve a MacArthur genius grant.
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