Speaker 1: That spooky music indicates we're going to talk about something
Speaker 1: Halloween related, but instead of blood and guts and jump scares,
Speaker 1: we're talking about maybe some feather boas. I don't know
Speaker 1: AC's we're talking about burlesque. The show is called Nightmare
Speaker 1: on Strip Strip. That's hard to say right on Strip Street, Kelly,
Speaker 1: not there on Strip Street?
Speaker 2: Say that about fourteen thousand times nine six. So yes,
Speaker 2: it's Nightmare on Strip Street here in Denver, of started
Speaker 2: in July going through November two.
Speaker 1: Probably wait, it's been going on since July? Yes, how
Speaker 1: did I just hear about this?
Speaker 3: Is it just as we're coming up to Halloween?
Speaker 4: I think that's the case.
Speaker 1: And I am out of the burlesque demos mostly, you
Speaker 1: know not you would be surprised, yea, when.
Speaker 2: You come see the show, if we can get you
Speaker 2: to come see the show, you will be surprised by
Speaker 2: the variety of ages that we have there, a lot
Speaker 2: of couples, right, of.
Speaker 4: Couples come for date night or what have you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is the first city that we're doing
Speaker 2: this particular show in, right, and the production company is
Speaker 2: developing it here. So we started in mid July through
Speaker 2: August we sold out every show, so the producers decided
Speaker 2: to extend.
Speaker 4: Us through November.
Speaker 1: Second, so let me ask this question for anybody listening,
Speaker 1: because already I can feel the judge people and they're like,
Speaker 1: maybe you're.
Speaker 3: Having strippers on that program.
Speaker 1: And now, what is the difference between burlesk in a
Speaker 1: more graphic form of we called the Shoe Show here
Speaker 1: on the program that you the ladies are just wearing shoes.
Speaker 2: What is the difference. The difference is that this is burlesque.
Speaker 2: It is much more choreographed directed. This is high level dancing.
Speaker 2: The dancers we have here today and the dancers in
Speaker 2: our show are elite athletes there. This is something you'll
Speaker 2: see in Vegas. This is not what you'll see at
Speaker 2: Shotgun Willie's. God bless everyone there. But this is not
Speaker 2: somebody who decides to just get up there and shake
Speaker 2: their hips.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: This is highly choreographed, highly directed, highly elite dancing.
Speaker 5: Well, we have.
Speaker 1: Janie and Brandon in with us today, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start with Janie.
Speaker 3: Janie, when you were.
Speaker 1: Little, were you like, God, I want to be a
Speaker 1: burthless dancer when I grow up.
Speaker 3: How did you get here? Not quite?
Speaker 6: Hi? No, I've I've always wanted to be a dancer,
Speaker 6: but this sort of just like fell into my lap
Speaker 6: this year. So this is my first time doing a
Speaker 6: burlesque show. But it's a blast and I love it.
Speaker 1: Did you have reservations at all like the concept of burlesque?
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts about it when when you found
Speaker 1: out about it? Where did you have any reservations at all?
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 6: Personally, No, I'm a very open book though I'm a
Speaker 6: heels dancer, so I'm used to like the sexy nature
Speaker 6: of the show. But yeah, not for me.
Speaker 1: How about now, Brandon, Most people would not necessarily think
Speaker 1: a dude in a burlesque show? So what do you
Speaker 1: do in the show?
Speaker 7: So the show is because it's a parody burlesque show,
Speaker 7: it has a.
Speaker 8: Comedy asset to it.
Speaker 7: Right, So on top of the comedy asset, there's a
Speaker 7: lot of I'm going to say, audience participation moments. And
Speaker 7: it's me and another dude. Okay, so we have a
Speaker 7: little skit where it's I don't want to give anything away,
Speaker 7: but it's an audience participation moment and it gets your
Speaker 7: blood flowing. It makes things a little spicy, I guess,
Speaker 7: But just as the ladies we have a little bur
Speaker 7: less moment.
Speaker 8: We have, you know, a little bit of clothes taken off.
Speaker 7: But it's the difference I would say with you know,
Speaker 7: a ship code what you're talking about, or is it's
Speaker 7: more sensual instead of like overtly you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: It's it's more like a classy way to like it's
Speaker 7: it's like a tease.
Speaker 8: It's not like a poem in you face.
Speaker 5: Well you got tease.
Speaker 1: And I have to say Didavante is really I think
Speaker 1: we'll just call her the godmother of modern burlesque because
Speaker 1: she brought the art form back yes and has had
Speaker 1: such stunning success and she every And I have a
Speaker 1: few friends who are in burlesque troops in other places
Speaker 1: and they're like, ah.
Speaker 3: Dita, you know so, but it's taken off.
Speaker 2: It has there's a huge burlesque movement here in Denver.
Speaker 2: If you don't know about that right now, there are
Speaker 2: a lot of troops that are performing burlesque. Of course,
Speaker 2: the clockwork of Giabaret, it does an amazing job there.
Speaker 2: Ophelia's Den had used to host the National Burlesque competition.
Speaker 2: Denver is really really kind of a before this type
Speaker 2: of performance art right now.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because it allows you to sort
Speaker 1: of push the envelope without pushing it too far exactly?
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's something that you can enjoy.
Speaker 2: You can see the costumes, the spectacle.
Speaker 1: The spectacle is the one at the production the little
Speaker 1: snippets that are online, and I was shocked at the
Speaker 1: production value.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean they're very impressive.
Speaker 4: They are. That's why I'm saying this is a Vegas
Speaker 4: style show.
Speaker 2: I mean we have I referenced to the splash Zone
Speaker 2: a little earlier, the very large champagne cup with a
Speaker 2: dancer in it.
Speaker 1: You don't know, you have to understand, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I always wanted to like the Honeymoon in
Speaker 1: the Poconos, Sure, because I wanted to be in the
Speaker 1: champagne glass hot tubs. And there's just like some nostalgia
Speaker 1: there with the champagne glass that I have to admit
Speaker 1: to because I.
Speaker 3: Just always looks so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the production values here are amazing. The costumes, the staging,
Speaker 2: the direction, the choreography, all of that brings so much
Speaker 2: higher level to all of this. Both of these these
Speaker 2: dancers are incredible. The heights that Brandon gets to is
Speaker 2: just amazing on this stage. So I highly encourage anyone
Speaker 2: who is a little bit hesitant because they're not sure
Speaker 2: about this type of situation.
Speaker 8: Uh, this is.
Speaker 2: Absolutely a very very very highly wonderful show. It's not
Speaker 2: you don't throw dollars on the stage, you don't touch any.
Speaker 3: On the stage. What roles do you play in the show?
Speaker 6: I play several. I'm leatherface. I played Jason.
Speaker 1: Of course you were born to play I think so,
Speaker 1: I think you yeah?
Speaker 3: And do you have the Jason music? Please tell me
Speaker 3: have the Jason music?
Speaker 8: I know?
Speaker 3: Is it copyrighted?
Speaker 2: It's actually our music for this show is a highly curated,
Speaker 2: special set of music that ross the parody.
Speaker 4: It's incredible, Okay, so incredible.
Speaker 6: I also I am Jake saw What else do I.
Speaker 3: Play in this show?
Speaker 4: Are you still in a nun?
Speaker 8: I'm a nun? Yes, pinhead? Yeah?
Speaker 4: What else? I think that's all of them?
Speaker 8: How did you?
Speaker 1: They just looked at you and like, she can play
Speaker 1: everyone evil in this show?
Speaker 3: A job? What can I say?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, when you guys started working on this show,
Speaker 1: and I'll ask all three of you this, like, at
Speaker 1: any point did you say, well, This is kind of crazy.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, we're making a Halloween.
Speaker 1: Show that's burlesque that's also funny, but it almost feels
Speaker 1: like a throwback to Vaudeville in a way, the kind
Speaker 1: of way you're describing it a little bit where it
Speaker 1: encompasses everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love burlesque personally, and I do a lot
Speaker 2: of theater around town. And so the thing that happened though,
Speaker 2: is that I worked with Empire Strips back when it
Speaker 2: was here last year. We're going to talk about that,
Speaker 2: and Wich is our Star Wars burlesque show. I loved
Speaker 2: it because I'm such a major Star Wars fan and
Speaker 2: it was such a good show. So when they called
Speaker 2: me to ask me to work this show, I said,
Speaker 2: this is the per follow up. This is just blow
Speaker 2: my mind. I can't believe somebody thought of this. It's
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: Now they're taking the show to other cities. Will you
Speaker 1: guys be going Are they going to recast in other
Speaker 1: cities or do you know how that word?
Speaker 3: They're They're giving me the look like we do not
Speaker 3: know the answer. It's a way up there.
Speaker 4: There is another cast in San Francisco. San Francisco is
Speaker 4: the next city. This show is going to In fact,
Speaker 4: it is in rehearsals right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So I mean when you went back Brandon
Speaker 1: and you said to your friend.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just got this cool job and I'm.
Speaker 1: Working in this burletque show about all of the serial
Speaker 1: like murderers in the horror movies, and what does your
Speaker 1: friends say?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I'm originally from New York City, right,
Speaker 7: so this.
Speaker 8: Is kind of normal. It's not really out of the ordinary.
Speaker 7: You know, I've been a professional dancer for like ten
Speaker 7: fifteen years, so I've been it look like you're.
Speaker 3: Like fifteen years old. By the way, Thank you.
Speaker 8: I just turned thirty one.
Speaker 1: Oh, congratulations to you. Whatever skincare regime you're doing that.
Speaker 1: Keep up that good work. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean it's when I explain everything, like because if
Speaker 7: you explain it separately, you're gonna.
Speaker 8: Look at me like, what right do you so?
Speaker 7: Halloween parody but also burlesque at the same time, like
Speaker 7: it it doesn't seem like it makes sense. And even
Speaker 7: when I like got hired for it, I was kind
Speaker 7: of thinking like that too, you know, I'm like, how
Speaker 7: is this.
Speaker 8: Gonna How does it work? Yeah?
Speaker 7: How does it work, How is it gonna look? How's
Speaker 7: it gonna like? How are they gonna put everything together?
Speaker 7: But then, honestly, like once we finally started getting into
Speaker 7: everything and like the show, after the first week of
Speaker 7: the shows, we were like, oh, okay, but don't you.
Speaker 1: Love it when you see a plan come together? Like
Speaker 1: I've always loved the creative process and working with other people,
Speaker 1: especially when you kind of don't know how it's gonna
Speaker 1: turn out, and then all of a sudden you're part
Speaker 1: of it and you start to see it all gel
Speaker 1: and it's It's a very powerful experience to create an
Speaker 1: artistic endeavor from scratch.
Speaker 8: It just is.
Speaker 4: It's the best life. It really is.
Speaker 2: I've seen the show fifty four times now and you're
Speaker 2: counting no, Well we are, yeah, yeah, And I love
Speaker 2: it every single time.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: And you should see the ladies go nuts for ghost
Speaker 2: Face and Mike Myers when Brandon and his compatriot Evan
Speaker 2: come out.
Speaker 3: It is crazy.
Speaker 1: Well's anything like women do at a mail strip review.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I am embarrassed for my
Speaker 1: gender when I see that kind of behavior is just
Speaker 1: shocking to me.
Speaker 2: Mostly most of the time, people behave themselves, but I
Speaker 2: get to handle the ones who don't.
Speaker 1: So yeah, let me ask you guys, because Kelly's talked
Speaker 1: extensively about this is an athletic group of performers.
Speaker 3: What is your athletic routine? What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3: You do just dance to word? No, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 3: They just dance.
Speaker 1: If you're dancing eight hours a day, that is a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of exercise.
Speaker 3: But do you have other things that you do to
Speaker 3: keep in shape?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, I mean I'm a personal trainer, so I
Speaker 6: strength train all the things. I also teach dance. You
Speaker 6: can speak on like gymnastics.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I go to the gym every day. I look small,
Speaker 7: but licks of deceiving, you know. And I'm a former
Speaker 7: gymnast that was a competitive gymnast all the way.
Speaker 8: Up until I was sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 7: So and also the other male dancer is a former,
Speaker 7: like huge competitive cheerleader.
Speaker 8: Will still. Yeah, we tumble a lot in.
Speaker 7: Their show too, and we break dance and we do
Speaker 7: all those type of things. So it's just a lot
Speaker 7: of athletic dancing. Like and with this is you think
Speaker 7: bur lesque, you think subtle movement.
Speaker 8: You just soft. These these girls are full out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like they're dancing super full out with a giant
Speaker 7: heavy mask on and not no vision.
Speaker 9: I don't wind Issu has a question for you guys. Yes,
Speaker 9: So while ninety of guys that they're going, oh bue
Speaker 9: less shit, I can't wait to go to Blessed. Even
Speaker 9: Dave Fraser was mocking o, everybody's gonna help in time. No, no, no, Now,
Speaker 9: I'm the ten percent of guys that are here for
Speaker 9: the amazing kickstart to my Halloween horror genre season. So
Speaker 9: can you guys pitch to me how satisfying this will
Speaker 9: be in terms of the entire horror genre? And like
Speaker 9: you mentioned, all the different characters you play will how
Speaker 9: satisfied will that be for me in that room?
Speaker 2: Well, you will never see Freddy or Jason or Mike
Speaker 2: Myers or ghost Face in the same way. Again, everyone
Speaker 2: else you ever see dressed as those characters will seem
Speaker 2: like complete posers. So not he's my ages language there,
Speaker 2: But yeah, Freddy is in the huge champagne cup. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, that's incredible. Leather Face, which she referenced, is
Speaker 2: pretty amazing. We have the slash street boys do you performing,
Speaker 2: which is a highlight for me personally, my favorite.
Speaker 5: We're going to have to double back, actually because I
Speaker 5: ask twice, not triple back.
Speaker 8: Splash Zone.
Speaker 5: These people, these people that are getting tickets, you're surely
Speaker 5: will be saying on VIP.
Speaker 8: What what are we? What are we talking about? Here?
Speaker 8: Was splash Zone.
Speaker 2: It's not a huge splash like you get it water World.
Speaker 2: Our dancer, we have two dancers that do that particular scene.
Speaker 2: They will slop a little bit out of the cup
Speaker 2: if you are in the front row of champagne glass.
Speaker 2: Chagne glass, okay, so if you're in the front row
Speaker 2: of the VIP uh, we usually tell our customers to
Speaker 2: pull their drinks back a little bit top on that
Speaker 2: the rest of the theater that you're not going to
Speaker 2: get it. You're just going to see those vi P
Speaker 2: people get a little sprinkle.
Speaker 1: I just had someone on the text line ask what.
Speaker 2: Ages are appropriate hair? It is an eighteen and overshow okay?
Speaker 2: We do We do ask that only eighteen and upcome.
Speaker 2: We do have a bar, so the bar will card you,
Speaker 2: but eighteen and over up to gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I had a lady who was like celebrating her eighty
Speaker 2: six birthday.
Speaker 3: Ye a lot of be like her when I grow
Speaker 3: up to eighty six.
Speaker 4: Wheeled in the wheelchair and she had the best time.
Speaker 1: Of that is well, you know what, in eighty six,
Speaker 1: you just don't care anymore, do you. You're just like
Speaker 1: I got zero blanks to give.
Speaker 5: I'm just.
Speaker 1: Person right there. So let's real quick before we run
Speaker 1: out of time. Let's talk about Empire Strips Bash sure,
Speaker 1: which is coming uh next year, next to next year's
Speaker 1: performance that. I looked at a bunch of videos on that.
Speaker 1: That is crazy.
Speaker 3: The accuracy of Java the hut.
Speaker 1: Alone is incredible, So tell me a little bit about
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: Java is an amazing, amazing set piece that is worked
Speaker 2: by several of our crew. He sings to Biggie Well,
Speaker 2: Princess Leah dances in.
Speaker 4: The gold bikini.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is like every nerds fantasy on the stage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's like I'm totally seeing that next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And for the ladies, Hans Solo and Shabaka do some
Speaker 2: really amazing scenes.
Speaker 1: I love that, you know, taking something like horror movies
Speaker 1: or taking something like Star Wars and turning it into
Speaker 1: something that's a little ridiculous and over the top, but
Speaker 1: it sort of acknowledges like, okay, nerds, we have this
Speaker 1: for you now.
Speaker 3: In a weird way. So are you guys going to
Speaker 3: try and participate in that one as well?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, have you you're been a professional dancer for
Speaker 1: fifteen years?
Speaker 3: What other roles?
Speaker 1: What other shows have you done that you would put
Speaker 1: on par.
Speaker 3: In terms of how much you've enjoyed it? That's a
Speaker 3: good question.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, really, Jadie, you can go well he's thinking,
Speaker 10: I mean, I can answer for myself please, In terms
Speaker 10: of enjoyment, this has been my favorite I think show
Speaker 10: I've ever done.
Speaker 6: Just the cast, the crew, the house, everyone there.
Speaker 4: We get along so well.
Speaker 3: It's been such a good experience.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of got to be hard to
Speaker 1: be upset or angry or or anything other than kind
Speaker 1: of joyful doing this kind of stuff, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely the case. And so all our patrons
Speaker 2: are so happy. They enjoy it so much, and there's
Speaker 2: just nothing better in this world than given joy to people.
Speaker 1: I put a link on the blog of where you
Speaker 1: can go buy your tickets.
Speaker 3: It is running until Wehn Kelly.
Speaker 2: November okay, true Halloween week, definitely.
Speaker 1: There you go, two men slapping bubbly liquid all over me.
Speaker 3: Take my money now, So that's the sister, you got
Speaker 3: that going for you? There you go anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, you guys have apparently agreed to play out the day.
Speaker 3: Do you know what you're getting into?
Speaker 8: Not a cluse?
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone los time, So if you lose today, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. You may not lose, but most people
Speaker 1: lose on the first time.
Speaker 3: It goes like this, we do we do five what
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 8: Five?
Speaker 1: We do Dad Joke of the Day. You don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything but laugh or grown. Then we do
Speaker 1: a word of the Day where you have to guess,
Speaker 1: usually badly, what the definition of a hard word is.
Speaker 1: And then we do Trivia Question of the Day, Trivia question,
Speaker 1: and then we do Jeopardy Category of the Day. Okay,
Speaker 1: it starts like this, though, and now it's time for
Speaker 1: the most exciting segment on the radio.
Speaker 4: Guy in the world, Kelly Knows.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is our dad joke of the day? Please, Anthony, respect.
Speaker 8: People who wear glasses.
Speaker 5: They paid money to see you.
Speaker 8: Ah, thank you you. Word of the day.
Speaker 3: Please, We're gonna pretend like that never happens.
Speaker 8: No, we can.
Speaker 5: It's a noun noun, pigeon, pigeon, not the bird p I,
Speaker 5: D G I N pigeon.
Speaker 3: Does that?
Speaker 8: Does that?
Speaker 3: How you mean pigeonholes? Somebody?
Speaker 1: No, pigeon is a language like pigeon is a mix
Speaker 1: of multiple languages in Hawaii?
Speaker 7: Is that it putting something pictures?
Speaker 3: Like slang in Hawaii.
Speaker 5: A simplified language system used between speakers of different languages.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying I feel it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Hawaii, today's trivia question, what is the official
Speaker 1: state fish of Hawaii?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: The long one.
Speaker 5: That's the crazy long one, that long like thirty letter name.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I thought it was like
Speaker 3: the ono or something. I think it's Oh no.
Speaker 5: You are correct, right, yeah, yep, let's hear it.
Speaker 3: It is the Huma Huma new ku kula power.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's of course the scientific name.
Speaker 1: Don't why at this rec also called the reef triggerfish.
Speaker 1: Oh so there you go, trigger fish. Yes, yes, exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not works you guys. If you know the answer,
Speaker 1: shout out your name and then you have to answer
Speaker 1: in the form of a question like they do on Jeopardy.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Jeopardy?
Speaker 1: Janey's looking skeptical, Pat, I'm sorry, okay, no problem, face.
Speaker 3: I wanted you knew what was going on. Okay.
Speaker 1: I am going to wait until the end of the question.
Speaker 1: I normally don't, but I am because you're new and
Speaker 1: I want to be kind.
Speaker 8: So here we go.
Speaker 5: What is our Jeopardy category? I would never ever cater
Speaker 5: a category to guess. Absolutely never. The category is at
Speaker 5: the end of the scary movie. Oh oh, now you
Speaker 5: just name the movie.
Speaker 8: This is Ripley, last Survivor.
Speaker 3: Kelly, Kelly, I said it too soon? Kelly, though alien? Correct?
Speaker 8: What is?
Speaker 3: But I'm going to tell you anyway. Excuse me.
Speaker 5: I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having
Speaker 5: an old friend for dinner manby What.
Speaker 3: Is Silence of the Lands?
Speaker 9: Is?
Speaker 3: Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 8: Two? Freddy's coming for your Brandon. What is the nightmare? Now?
Speaker 8: I'm sure I used to hate the water.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine why I used to.
Speaker 1: Hate the water. I can't imagine why. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'm not a scary movie person, is Josh? I don't know.
Speaker 8: I was thinking Jason.
Speaker 10: Shark.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 5: This one's tough. Excuse me. I don't mean to bother you,
Speaker 5: but are you Paul Sheldon? I just want to tell
Speaker 5: you I'm your number one fan.
Speaker 3: That is the movie with what's the.
Speaker 8: Score right now?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 8: Dang it?
Speaker 5: What is misery time? We're going to do a tiebreaker,
Speaker 5: Let's say Saveebreaker. Let's go with blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: These are all terrible. Oh my gosh, these are awful. Okay,
Speaker 5: let's go with alliteration. Okay, it's when a term paper
Speaker 5: is supposed to be submitted or a baby is expected
Speaker 5: to be born.
Speaker 3: Mandy, what is a du date? That is correct? And
Speaker 3: that's okay?
Speaker 8: Val really really good.
Speaker 1: Effort, you guys, good effort. Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Everybody go see Nightmare on Strip Street. I've put the
Speaker 1: information about how to buy tickets on the blog at
Speaker 1: Mandy's blog dot com.