BEST OF NEW YORK:
BEST BURLESQUE
"Sexy, campy fun... hardly the same old song and fan dance... an uproarious evening"

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"The best burlesque show in town"

CITY PICK
"Your perverted genre fantasies have come shimmying to life"

"Daring, funny, imaginative and titillating to all tastes"

MOST INNOVATIVE
2007 Exotic World Pageant

"The most imaginative (and funniest) burlesque troupe in the city"

"High-class burlesque"

"Super fun and definitely twisted nocturnal performance fiesta"

"Comedy and partial nudity go remarkably well together. Where else can you hoot, whistle, and bust a gut laughing?"
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PRETENÇIÓN: un cirque de burlesque, un burlesque de cirque

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Where your imagination hits your funny bone: Pinchbottom's Pretençión, a neo-burlesque show with a rotating all-star cast of some of the hottest names in the business. Join a French Stripper, a Traumatized Clown, and an Ordinary Man on sensual quest for Pretençión, which turns performers from ordinary "Jerques" into self-important "Cirques" -- magical, spellbinding artistes who peel away the mundane with every layer of clothing.

Featuring international bump and grind superstars like Angie Pontani, Broadway Brassy, Dirty Martini, Fancy Chance, Jo "Boobs" Weldon, Jonny Porkpie, Julie Atlas Muz, Little Brooklyn, Mat "Sealboy" Fraser, Tansy, Tigger!, Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey, and more in this eye-popping, mind-bending, pants-dropping, hilarious adventure!

The Elektra Theater, 669 8th Avenue NYC
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Pinchbottom Burlesque