I went to a Doctor Who themed burlesque show last night with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
holli and her beau. It was certainly interesting and some of the dancers were very good. The woman who did a Weeping Angel -- well, a standard white angel costume at first, but when she turned around and the strobe light started going off, and you could see her fang prosthetics -- was rather awesome.
I'm pretty sure that I'm not the right audience for it, since while I appreciated the emcee's costume changes -- he did all three of the New Skool Doctors -- and I liked the dancers interpretations of various characters and monsters, I kept wondering if the next act would be a male dancer doing Captain Jack Harkness. It seemed like a perfect opportunity, but no Jack. :(
Also, breasts are just not that interesting to me -- I have my own, I know what they look like, and stripping down to panties and pasties only worked for me when there was something more unusual than an almost naked breast. The dancer who played a Dalek and had light-up cording over her corset and matching blinking light on her pasties, and they turned off one-by as her Dalek persona turned itself off, that worked really well. The dancer in the Cyberman costume -- well, that's the only time I've seen someone wear one of those metal bras that they sometimes selling at the RenFaire (and that show up all too often in a certain genre of SF cover -- the Frazetta style) -- it didn't look that comfortable, but if one were only wearing it for five minutes to dance in and were fairly light on top, I suppose it would be tolerable. The last dancer did it all as a gasmask zombie, which was kind of an accomplishment even if the mask wasn't tightly fitted -- those things are hard to breath in; the fact that her pasties wound up looking like gasmask filters was either awesome or over-the-top, I'm still not sure which.
All in all, it was an enjoyable evening, and I glad I went, even if it's not quite my thing.
holli and her beau. It was certainly interesting and some of the dancers were very good. The woman who did a Weeping Angel -- well, a standard white angel costume at first, but when she turned around and the strobe light started going off, and you could see her fang prosthetics -- was rather awesome.I'm pretty sure that I'm not the right audience for it, since while I appreciated the emcee's costume changes -- he did all three of the New Skool Doctors -- and I liked the dancers interpretations of various characters and monsters, I kept wondering if the next act would be a male dancer doing Captain Jack Harkness. It seemed like a perfect opportunity, but no Jack. :(
Also, breasts are just not that interesting to me -- I have my own, I know what they look like, and stripping down to panties and pasties only worked for me when there was something more unusual than an almost naked breast. The dancer who played a Dalek and had light-up cording over her corset and matching blinking light on her pasties, and they turned off one-by as her Dalek persona turned itself off, that worked really well. The dancer in the Cyberman costume -- well, that's the only time I've seen someone wear one of those metal bras that they sometimes selling at the RenFaire (and that show up all too often in a certain genre of SF cover -- the Frazetta style) -- it didn't look that comfortable, but if one were only wearing it for five minutes to dance in and were fairly light on top, I suppose it would be tolerable. The last dancer did it all as a gasmask zombie, which was kind of an accomplishment even if the mask wasn't tightly fitted -- those things are hard to breath in; the fact that her pasties wound up looking like gasmask filters was either awesome or over-the-top, I'm still not sure which.
All in all, it was an enjoyable evening, and I glad I went, even if it's not quite my thing.
