This campy, vampy show is sure to leave you feeling teased in more ways than one! True to the history of vaudeville, the sultry stripteases are balanced by live vocal performances and laugh-out-loud comedic hijinks, which is almost as much a reason to see a show as the performers themselves. Performances are sometimes risqué and often suggestive, but always retain the modest sensibility of the era in which the art form of burlesque originated. The cast throws convention aside along with their bras creating shows that are original, innovative and new. Salomé Cabaret is nationally award-winning and Knoxville’s longest running burlesque troupe, celebrating 11 years in 2019. Salomé Cabaret offers a liberal and modern interpretation of burlesque and vaudeville. But most of all, Blanche strives to brighten the burlesque world with her boundless joy, enthusiasm, optimism, and bewilderment. In 2019 she was an invited presenter at Burl圜on, bringing her new workshop, “Kindness: A Revolutionary Act” to the convention. Since 2012, she has been an emcee of the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender, the burlesque world’s premier annual international event. “If America had a sweetheart, Blanche would be her well-meaning but less attractive best friend.” She made her burlesque debut at the Moisture Festival in Seattle in 2008 and has returned repeatedly as a performer and co-host. At the height of the vaudeville era, the theatre drew some of the stars of the day, from Will Rogers to the Marx Brothers to John Phillip Sousa.īlanche DeBris has been entertaining herself and occasionally others for more years than she can reliably count. Vaudeville was the mainstay of the theatre from 1913 to 1926, with the occasional motion picture being shown as well. At the height of Vaudeville’s popularity the Lamar House, which was built in 1801, converted their ballroom into the Bijou Theatre. The Knoxville Sentinel proclaimed the Bijou Theatre to be "one of the best constructed and most conveniently arranged houses in the entire south". The Bijou Theatre opened March 8, 1909, to a sellout crowd, hosting a production of "Little Johnny Jones" starring George M. Tickets are available at the Tennessee Theatre box office, by phone at 86 and online at. This Vaudeville Extravaganza is presented by First Bank. VIP tickets are available for $50 and include a premium seat location and a commemorative poster designed and printed by Status Serigraph. Tickets to this astonishing show are only $19.09, a nod to the year the doors of the Bijou first opened to entertain the people of East Tennessee. The cinema was also unsuccessful and closed in 1940 the building was demolished in December of that year.The Bijou Theatre as it is today image submittedīurlesque performer Blanche DeBris (headliner of the 2018 Smoky Mountain Burlesque Festival) will serve as mistress of ceremonies, weaving the night’s performances together with captivating stories of the Bijou’s eclectic history as host of the vaudeville arts through the ages. The venue was then converted to show movies and reopened as Cinema 49. The final theatrical performance at the venue was a production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck. It continued to operate as a playhouse until April 1938. They lost control of the property during the Great Depression. Although it had some popular productions, such as the revue La Chauve-Souris and the Aaron Hoffman play Give and Take, the venue was one of the Shuberts' less successful locations. It opened on December 26, 1921, with a performance of Face Value, a comedy by Laurence Grass. The 750-seat neo-Renaissance style theater was designed by the architect Herbert J. The 49th Street Theatre (later renamed Cinema 49) was a Broadway theater at 235 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.
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