PRESS FOR EXCELSIOR BURLEQUE

"This Sandman Burlesque Wasn't At All What We Were Expecting"
6/12/15

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Despair of the Endless is neither sexy nor particularly entertaining, at least under any conventional definition of the word. Within the pages of Neil Gaiman’s medium-defining comics benchmark, The Sandman, she’s a walking buzzkill with a jutting, fanged underbite. Much like her siblings Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Destruction and Delight/Delirium, she’s also the distilled embodiment and existential ruler of her namesake, and all that it implies. If form is function—and it very much is—she’s the absence of fun. An anti-aphrodisiac and the equivalent of visual birth control. The character tears her flesh into visceral ribbons with a barbed ring as a coping mechanism, as well as commandeers a cloud of rats and other vermin as company. In other words, the perpetually nude character rigorously lives up to her anthropomorphic namesake. Read more at PasteMagazine.com

"We Are Not Amused" - Time Out Photo Spread
12/10/13

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If you were on the Bowery on Tuesday, December 10th, and thought that you spied Edina Monsoon, Patsy Stone or a particularly buxom Mrs. Slocombe flouncing about on the R Bar stage, you weren’t drinking too much. Well, perhaps you were, but the visions were real—you were at Excelsior Burlesque’s We Are Not Amused, the monthly show’s tribute to the BBC Read More at TimeOut.com

"Go to Hell with Excelsior Burlesque"
3/12/2013

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Burly-Q dancer Ruby Solitaire and roller-derby announcer (and burlesque-hosting virgin) Moe Cheezmo present this evening of bump and grind, which explores "the sacred and the profane." Performers include Anja Keister, Corvette LeFace, Dangrrr Doll, Dot Mitzvah and Miss Rose. At only $10, it’s the cheapest ticket to the debauched that you’ll find on a Tuesday night. Read more at TimeOut.com

"B Is For Burlesque"
11/18/2013

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A hush crawled through the crowd as a familiar “hurm” growled from the speakers and Moe Cheezmo stepped on stage, an ink-blotted white stocking stretched across his face. He broke from his Rorschach grumblings and into the steady baritone of a disc jockey to welcome everyone to “Who Strips the Strippers?” Excelsior Burlesque’s tribute to Alan Moore. “I assume everybody’s here because you love the work of Alan Moore…” he announced. Read more at PasteMagazine.com

NewYork.com Top 5 List
7/9/13

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If whips, fedoras and blasters are your aphrodisiacs then you’ll love Excelsior Burlesque’s sexy celebration of the Harrison Ford canon starring Bettina May, Dangrrr Doll, Hard Corey, Brettzo, Cherry La Voix and Ruby Solitaire. Strap yourselves in for a geektastically wild ride as host Moe Cheezmo and company make the jump to light speed at R Bar. Read more at NewYork.com

The Tuesday Tease
10/1/13

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Proprietors MOE CHEEZMO and RUBY SOLITAIRE are pleased to announce a GRAND EXHIBITION of the ecdysial ARTS, to occur on the EIGHTH of OCTOBER at the venerable Manhattan PUBLICK HOUSE known as the R-BAR. Read more at Brownpapertickets.com