The bar keeps rising. Last night, myself and a few hundred hipsterishly cool folks packed ourselves into the Revival Club for the “Glamour Gala” – and what an awesomely glamourous gala it was. Hosts La Minouche and Sexy Mark Brown were huge fun, snappy and smart – not to mention damn sexy. La Minouche is the cutest/sexiest woman and that Sexy Mark Brown brought it on as well when he accompanied Tanya Cheeks in her hilariously romantic Sea Monkey routine – I felt especially close to this, as I too had those disappointing little creatures when I was a kid – still remembering the day my Mom killed the last remaining one, apparently by “accident”…
Performers were mainly from these eastern parts, with a few westerners thrown in to remind Toronto that there is indeed a left coast. All were fantastic, but I’ve gotta shout out to a few standouts: Foxy Tann and her reflection on selling a “chair”, Roxy Dlite and her 2010 Burlesque Hall of Fame winning performance, the amazing hula-hoopness of Lula Houp-Garou, Julie Atlas Muz and Tigger’s operetta, Michelle L’amour’s incredibly sexy Snow White, Dew Lily’s phenomenal Tin Man and of course the standing-ovation-causing, boob-a-flaming finale number from none other than Satan’s Angel – I tell ya, every single one of us were (and still are) completely in love with her!
Videos of all the TBF performances will be on StripCHEEZ starting next Tuesday, July 27
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Hi Tink! Thank you sooooooo much for all your support for our Festival!! I’m glad you enjoyed the SeaMonkey act, I had a similar experience with my Dad! He drank them! Reliving childhood trauma through burlesque! The correct spelling of my last name is Cheex not Cheeks- common mistake. I wouldn’t care but I wanted us to both get more hits.
XO
Tanya Cheex
GAWD! I LOVED TANYA CHEEX IN THE SEA MONKEY PERFORMANCE….STILL LAUGHIN! HELL! I EVEN TOLD MY PARENTS HEH HEH