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[emcee]
Ladies and gentlemen,
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you ready to see
some burlesque?
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[audience cheers]
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Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to see this girl?
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Come on, let me hear it!
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[audience cheers]
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Give it up for Gal Friday!
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[sultry music plays]
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[man]
♪ I went down
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♪ To Saint James infirmary
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♪ See my baby there
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♪ She was stretched out
On a long white table ♪
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♪ And she was
Just lying on there ♪
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[Gal Friday]
I am from Tennessee.
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For a lot of Southern families,
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it's really big that girls
get married or have a family.
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That's not my lifestyle.
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[audience cheers]
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[song ends]
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[emcee]
Let's hear it for Gal Friday!
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[cheers and applause]
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[Julie Atlas Muz]
Everyone can do it.
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Everyone can perform burlesque
if they really want to.
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You need to get a costume,
you need to get a gimmick,
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and you need to get up onstage
and have the balls to do it.
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[cheers and applause]
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I was asked, I believe,
in 1996 or 1997,
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by Catherine Hourihan,
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she said, "Will you do
a burlesque number for me?"
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And I had no idea
what it was.
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She said,
"It's a short dance
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that either begins or ends naked
to music."
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You know, at that time
you could fit
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all of the burlesque performers
in New York City in two cabs.
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I remember when it was still
just like me,
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Scotty the Blue Bunny,
Dirty Martini,
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Velocity Chyaldd, Tigger,
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and World Famous Bob,
and just like a handful
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of the first wave
of what we considered to be
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the initial waves of
the burlesque revival movement
in New York City.
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Experimental artists that were
just absolutely whack-a-doodle
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and inspiring and think outside any concept of any shape.
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Think outside the triangle.
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When I started doing burlesque,
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nobody knew what the word
"burlesque" was.
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I didn't even care what
the word "burlesque" meant.
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But then it sort of like
snowballed.
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You know, there's that
second wave
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Then there's the third wave.
Then there's the fourth wave.
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And then Christina Aguilera
and Cher.
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And then there's
the seventh wave.
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Burlesque is an evolving term,
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which includes an aesthetic
of sparkles and eyelashes
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and high heels
and fancy dresses and nudity.
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And femininity.
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And comedy.
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It's also now becoming
more and more a lifestyle.
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But burlesque has always been,
and I believe will always be,
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the lowest of the low
entertainment.
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Because, really,
who are we?
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Just some stripper
from New York City.
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[laughs]
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I always knew
I wanted to live here.
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Even when I was young
and had no concept
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of what it really meant.
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I felt really weird
where I was from.
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I don't know,
it just never felt like
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the right fit back there.
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My mother always said I was an
old woman born in a tiny body.
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And from the very beginning, a smartass who talked too much,
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and just a little too wise
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for such a small person.
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And she has great stories
of where I would,
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even as a 7-year-old,
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just be breaking the balls
of all of her friends.
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And she said, you would make them feel bad about themselves.
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My mother was
a construction worker.
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Sometimes for fun she would
take me on site with her,
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and I always liked that time
with her.
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Now she is a motorcycle
mechanic.
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My father is a contractor
and does like electric work
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and stuff like that, but I did not grow up with him.
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He left when I was a baby.
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But we've always had a good,
friendly relationship.
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He knows what I do.
He doesn't care.
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When you're in a family
where your mom is a biker,
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a Harley mechanic,
and an all-around tough broad
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who does her own thing as well
it's like,
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what are they going to say?
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I have been a professional
burlesque performer
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for about six years.
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I've got it good.
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I live in New York
and I'm able
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to maybe sometimes
barely scrape by,
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but I'm still able
to support myself.
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[emcee 1]
Gal Friday!
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[emcee 2]
Gal Friday!
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It's Gal Friday!
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[audience cheers]
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[Julie]
There have been months where
I struggled to make my rent.
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But, you know, that's the life
of a classic stripper.
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-[indistinct chatter]
-[techno music throbbing]
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[applause]
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[Jonny Porkpie] Minnie Tonka
and Darlinda Just Darlinda,
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10 years ago
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did a number that you are going
to see in just a couple minutes.
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That's right, they're going
to be performing
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their very first number
from 2004 for us tonight,
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which I think
is incredible.
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[cheers and applause]
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So, ladies and gentlemen,
please join me
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in welcoming to the stage,
the Schlep Sisters.
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[cheers and applause]
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[harmonizing]
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[singing in Yiddish]
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[Darlinda]
In Yiddish, "schlep" is like,
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oh, you're kind of
a sloppy person,
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or like, you know, oh, you got
to schlep that big bag.
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So it's like,
it's a funny word.
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And it doesn't necessarily
have like a sexy connotation.
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♪ Turn left, turn right
Hold tight ♪
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♪ Lift your feet
Heart will follow ♪
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♪ Lift your voice
Fill the hollow ♪
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♪ Spread your wings
Like the swallow ♪
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♪ Spread your wings like
The swallow ♪
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♪ Fly away
Greet the day ♪
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♪ Dance, dance
Everybody dance ♪
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[Darlinda]
Our Hava Nagila act
was our first act ever.
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We came out in granny panties.
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We had these suitcases
just full of random clothes.
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And then we just
put them on.
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We did a reverse strip,
because I didn't want to strip.
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I was intimidated, yeah.
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At the time, that's when, like,
kind of gay marriage
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was starting to get into the
news, and we were like, oh...
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-As we developed that act.
-As we developed that act, yeah.
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And we were like oh, well,
Hava Nagila is a wedding song,
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so why don't we be
two brides?
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[audience cheers]
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[interviewer] How does
the Schlep Sisters' style
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differ from your individual
styles and routines?
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I mean, I tend to do,
like, really weird things.
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Pull things out
of my pussy, and...
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[crowd cheering]
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You know, it's like things
like that are, like,
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the Schlep Sisters
would never do, you know?
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-[laughs]
-And I would never do.
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And, yeah, she would never do,
yeah, yeah.
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[Minnie]
Before I got into burlesque,
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I was really on this very deep
Jewish journey.
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I got my master's
in Jewish Education.
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In graduate school I felt very,
very out of place.
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It was very stifling
and conservative for me.
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I didn't kind of fit
the typical mold
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of someone who would go to
a Jewish theological seminary.
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Please welcome to the stage,
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from New York City,
Minnie Tonka!
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[audience cheers]
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[rock music plays]
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So, I was really, really excited
and intrigued to try burlesque.
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[audience cheers]
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But I was very,
very scared
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to do the strip tease
alone on stage.
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And Darlinda was always really
pushing me to, you know,
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be more naked
and be more naked.
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♪ Shut your mouth
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♪ Shut your mouth
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♪ Shut your mouth
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[Minnie]
I think about that sometimes,
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when I think about how I just
fully didn't get it, in a way.
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You know, it took me years
to fully get
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and understand burlesque.
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Or maybe an animal
that you like?
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Or that you're
curious about.
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The past few years I've started to teach burlesque.
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[women laugh]
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If you were a snake,
for example,
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you want to, like, slither
your way to get to that sun.
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Or you-- you see a rat
that you want to eat.
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I wanted to create a class
to give people the space
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to explore what burlesque
means to them.
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What are some reasons
for doing burlesque?
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If you're exposed to different
body types, you will find--
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you will find
your mindset changing,
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and you'll start
thinking, like,
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wow, this type of body that I
never see is actually beautiful,
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because you're just being
exposed to it more and more.
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Burlesque is an opportunity
to be a statement, an assertion.
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I am enough, I am okay,
I am going to share it.
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If you don't want it,
that's fine, but here it is.
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-[woman] Yeah.
-[laughter]
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Here it is.
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[woman]
Yeah.
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The fact that we have
a sexuality
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and we can display this
without shame.
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And, you know, display,
like, whatever kind of freak
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you've got inside.
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[all laugh]
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[Minnie]
I don't know if there
was a specific moment
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that told me this is what
I'm going to be doing.
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Just lots of little steps.
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[Hazel Honeysuckle]
This is from the time that
I took my grandma's scarves
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out of her drawer and tied them
around me into a costume.
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[laughs]
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But I know that
I had these, like,
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just kind of secret dreams.
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I would go up to my room
and play dress-up and, like,
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pretend I was a princess.
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Like, way later than...
than I should admit.
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I've had issues
with social anxiety.
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I guess I got boobs early,
and a little bit of teasing.
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I felt that if I showed cleavage
I was slutty.
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[ambulance siren wailing
distantly]
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My first performance,
I was intensely nervous.
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I remember being
in the dressing room
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with all these other
performers.
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The dressing room
at the Slipper Room
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was covered
in glittery graffiti.
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All these performers' names
who I had seen.
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And being back there
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where all these other
performers had been...
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was intimidating
and exciting.
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But I remember kind of the
moment I stepped on stage...
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[emcee]
Hazel Honeysuckle...
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...and heard applause
and saw the audience...
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it was kind of like
a homecoming.
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[crowd cheering]
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[applause]
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You know, I've been present
for a lot of conversations
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that go something like this:
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"Oh, she gets hired
because she flirts."
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"She gets hired because
she's real pretty,
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but she can't dance,"
you know.
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Telling me that I'm not really
that good.
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-Hi, Minnie. Sorry.
-Hi, it's okay.
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-Hi, Hazel.
-Hi-- ooh.
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[emcee]
How are you? Thanks for coming.
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[woman] We're both wearing
white G-strings.
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Yes. Yes.
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[emcee]
I see.
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Bean bag masturbation.
What is that?
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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get yourselves ready
for the Wiggle Room.
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[Hazel]
I don't doubt that if I had
a different body,
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there's a very good chance
I would not have gotten
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a lot of the work,
or the same amount of work
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that I have gotten.
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That's left me
with something to prove.
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[emcee]
Here she is now, the lovely,
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the talented, my ex-wife,
Hazel Honeysuckle!
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[woman]
♪ Honey dear, want you near
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♪ Just turn out the lights
And then come over here ♪
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♪ Nestle close up to my side
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[Hazel]
I don't want to be a success
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based on just being pretty.
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I want to be worth it
as an artist.
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[woman]
♪ I never knew that life could
Ever be so sweet ♪
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♪ Till I met you
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♪ Some time ago
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♪ But now you know
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♪ I love you so
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[song ends]
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Hazel Honeysuckle,
everybody!
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[Gal Friday]
I have a massive
shoe collection.
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So we have all manner
of Lucite,
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boots, thigh-highs,
lesser used stripper heels.
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And my Golden Pasty Award
for Best Booty.
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This is going to be an issue.
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All various shades of red
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falls for all of my different
redhead moments.
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When I first started
performing,
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I remember thinking
that I would have to
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kind of change my personality
for this character.
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That I would be much quieter
and more ladylike
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with that look
of that classic pin-up.
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That shit just flew out
the window so fast.
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Your real personality is just
going to eventually come out.
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And my real personality
is pretty tomboy-ish.
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And, you know,
sarcastic
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and sometimes a little
bit aggressive.
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So, you know, you can try
to hold those things down,
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but eventually
they come out anyway.
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And I found that it actually,
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I think, makes
my performance better.
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You know, there's only so many dance moves you can do.
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I tend to do mostly classic burlesque, I would say.
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A lot of bumps and grinds,
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and a lot of booty moves
and ass-shaking.
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Certain venues or, you know,
producers have expectations.
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They'll even tell you,
you know,
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this is more
of a classic show.
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Please bring
classic numbers.
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But I want to have
my flavor in it too.
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[audience cheers]
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I don't want to just go
out there and be like,
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"I'm a princess."
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Because I'm really not.
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[laughs]
I can't even fake it.
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[emcee]
Yeah!
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[indistinct chattering]
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Here we go,
let's try it again.
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That's good.
Try one more again.
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[Gal Friday]
To some people maybe I am
a one-trick pony.
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I mean, there might
be people out there
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who automatically assume
she only does classic.
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You don't want to get
in that rut where it's like,
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that is what Gal Friday does.
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[police siren blaring]
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I want to perform something
out of my comfort zone.
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I just want to do
something different.
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And I know it seems silly,
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but I'm a little bit
afraid to fail,
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and I don't like that.
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[emcee]
Ladies and gentlemen,
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welcome to the Slipper Room
show, Glitter Gutter.
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Now please welcome your host
for the evening,
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a man flying on
an altitude of talent
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beyond human imagining,
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Mr. Mel Frye.
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[upbeat music plays]
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Yeah!
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How we doin'? How we doin'?
How are you?
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And the rest of you,
how are you guys doing?
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I went to the doctor today.
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Comes in with this little
clipboard and he says,
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"Mel, you have to stop
masturbating."
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I said, "Why, doc? Why do I have
to stop masturbating?
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I mean, that's ridiculous."
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00:21:30,724 --> 00:21:33,553
And he said, "Because I'm trying
to examine you."
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[laughter]
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It's the Glitter Gutter,
ladies and gentlemen.
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It's the Glitter Gutter.
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[James Habacker]
When I first opened
the Slipper Room downtown,
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it was very much
an artistic center.
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You know, a lot of small
experimental theaters
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run by people who were
interested in art,
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and supporting the arts.
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They're all gone now.
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We're the last
of the theaters
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on the Lower East Side.
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I think that New York
is much more money-oriented
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than it is arts-oriented.
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One of the things, I think,
that makes the Slipper Room
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kind of unique is that
it is run by people
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who are in it as an art project
first and foremost.
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One of the things
that really cemented it
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as the Slipper Room style
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was that you have a host
who's a comedian
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who's playing a character,
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you know who's doing like
an old-style variety show,
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like the kind of thing
you might have seen,
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you know,
on 1950s television.
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[man]
Yeah!
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-[balloon pops]
-[woman screams]
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We book variety shows,
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and I consider the burlesque
side of it
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to be strip tease.
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And not just
any strip tease.
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There's a distinction
between the stripper
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and the burlesque dancer.
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Burlesque itself as an art form is, you know,
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hundreds of years older
than strip tease.
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And it's political parody.
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It's holding a mirror up
to our society and saying,
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look how ridiculous this is.
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It forces people to think about how repressed their lives are.
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We get a lot of really square
people come in here,
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00:23:16,699 --> 00:23:18,440
and they see these people
who are on stage
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who are completely free.
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And it's in a direct line
from you know, Warhol's Factory.
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Like what, you know, came out
of New York in the '60s.
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There are still a fair amount
of people who come to New York
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because they're attracted
to that.
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'Cause they know about that.
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And if they find us,
then they have a home.
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[audience cheers]
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[women]
Four, five, six, seven, eight.
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[Minnie]
Every year, Darlinda and I
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create a new act.
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And this year we debut
our act Schlep-A-Con.
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As we're working on it,
we're evolving.
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Every few months we had
friends come in
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00:24:09,883 --> 00:24:12,494
and help us just tighten it up
even more.
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00:24:15,541 --> 00:24:17,717
And, of course, our costumes
are from Garo Sparo.
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00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,370
Whoo!
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00:24:19,414 --> 00:24:20,633
-[laughs]
-I think it's funny.
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00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:22,678
I mean, people like camel toe.
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[Minnie]
The costumes are so showbiz.
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And, hot damn,
it's major camel toe.
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-It's-- I mean--
-The most camel toe ever.
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-[Minnie] It's--
-[Darlinda] More camel toe
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than any other Schlep act.
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[Minnie]
We applied to
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the Burlesque
Hall of Fame this year,
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for Best Small Group.
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[applause]
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[Darlinda] They call the Burlesque Hall of Fame the Oscars of burlesque.
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The pageant is valuable,
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because people from all over
the world come,
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and then they want to
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book you because
they've seen your act.
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00:25:11,422 --> 00:25:12,902
It's like a showcase
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of stuff from
all over the world.
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00:25:17,994 --> 00:25:21,128
The first time I went to the
Burlesque Hall of Fame was 2009,
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and we competed
with Party In My Pants.
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00:25:23,609 --> 00:25:25,611
[man] ♪ There's a party in my pants
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♪ And everybody's coming
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[Minnie] And then we
competed again in 2011.
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When we performed, I literally
like went out of my body
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and, like,
saw us on stage.
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00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,802
-It was like...
-It was so scary.
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[audience cheers]
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[Darlinda] This will be
our third time competing.
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We haven't won yet, and we
really want to win this year.
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[Perle Noire] For most girls,
the Burlesque Hall of Fame,
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it's a weekend
about networking
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00:26:01,385 --> 00:26:04,171
and the big competition
where they announce
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00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:06,303
the new Queen of Burlesque
for the year.
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00:26:06,347 --> 00:26:09,219
But it's actually
an opportunity
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to pay respect to the actual
legends who did it themselves.
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These were women
who were rebels.
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00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:29,152
I was looking
through a magazine
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00:26:29,196 --> 00:26:31,241
and saw a picture
of Josephine Baker
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in her banana skirt.
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00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,855
And I read about her life.
and I just was so captivated
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00:26:35,898 --> 00:26:37,770
with this woman
who I just thought
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was gorgeous and statuesque.
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00:26:40,511 --> 00:26:42,035
And the more I found out
about her,
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00:26:42,078 --> 00:26:43,950
the more enchanted I was
with her story,
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00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:45,604
because she grew up poor.
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00:26:45,647 --> 00:26:47,214
Very, very poor.
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00:26:47,257 --> 00:26:49,608
And the odds... she was
a black woman in the '20s
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00:26:49,651 --> 00:26:52,219
who became this sensation
in Paris,
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00:26:52,262 --> 00:26:55,178
and was the only woman to speak at the March on Washington,
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00:26:55,222 --> 00:26:58,704
and then was also a spy
for the French Resistance.
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00:26:58,747 --> 00:27:00,227
I said, "I want to be
this woman
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00:27:00,270 --> 00:27:02,272
and I want to do a tribute
to her one day."
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00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:04,231
[audience cheers]
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00:27:06,233 --> 00:27:09,802
I came across the problem
of people not seeing me
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00:27:09,845 --> 00:27:12,195
as a glamorous woman,
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00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:15,721
or only wanting to see
the sort of savage persona.
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00:27:15,764 --> 00:27:17,418
I've had producers tell me,
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00:27:17,461 --> 00:27:19,899
"You should only do
an African-themed act."
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00:27:19,942 --> 00:27:22,205
Or they want me to be
a voodoo priestess.
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00:27:22,249 --> 00:27:24,033
But not a glamorous one.
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00:27:24,077 --> 00:27:27,646
You know, a really dark
voodoo priestess.
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00:27:27,689 --> 00:27:32,520
And I just find it fascinating
that people can't see
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a black woman
as this glamorous being.
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[emcee]
Ladies and gentlemen,
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it's my pleasure to bring
to the stage
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Miss Perle Noire.
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00:27:45,011 --> 00:27:47,666
-[audience cheers]
-[piano music plays]
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[Perle Noire]
People go to burlesque shows
to escape,
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00:28:01,462 --> 00:28:03,203
to have a good time,
to laugh.
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00:28:05,509 --> 00:28:08,861
But burlesque makes people
feel certain things,
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00:28:08,904 --> 00:28:10,471
and sometimes
they don't like it.
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00:28:13,909 --> 00:28:17,043
Sometimes people are turned on,
and it bothers them.
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00:28:17,086 --> 00:28:19,262
Women being turned on
by another woman,
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00:28:19,306 --> 00:28:22,701
and it... they get really
discombobulated.
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00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:24,877
They can't understand
what's happening.
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00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,271
Men being turned on by a woman
who isn't their ideal body.
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00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:30,534
You know,
maybe his wife is blonde,
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00:28:30,578 --> 00:28:32,493
but he's turned on
by the black performer.
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00:28:32,536 --> 00:28:35,757
Or he's turned on by the
performer that's 200 pounds.
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00:28:35,801 --> 00:28:37,977
[audience cheering]
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00:28:43,373 --> 00:28:45,158
[Jezebel Express]
You know, I'm a performer
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00:28:45,201 --> 00:28:46,855
who is not going to be
on the cover ofMaxim.
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00:28:46,899 --> 00:28:49,379
I like my body. Um...
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00:28:49,423 --> 00:28:50,816
You can call it
a bunch of different things.
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00:28:50,859 --> 00:28:52,295
I'm curvy.
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00:28:52,339 --> 00:28:56,343
I don't fit into
regular-sized clothing.
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00:28:56,386 --> 00:28:58,562
What I do is mostly
straight strip tease.
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00:28:58,606 --> 00:29:00,695
So I get up,
and I do sexy.
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00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:03,045
And I do it sincerely,
and I do it 100%,
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00:29:03,089 --> 00:29:06,440
and I do it
for that audience.
476
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:08,007
I'm here.
This is what I have.
477
00:29:08,050 --> 00:29:09,922
You can like it
or you can not like it.
478
00:29:09,965 --> 00:29:12,098
I like it.
I think it looks good.
479
00:29:12,141 --> 00:29:14,143
I want to show it to you.
I'm doing it.
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00:29:18,191 --> 00:29:20,671
I don't go out to be political,
481
00:29:20,715 --> 00:29:23,892
but when people see me
get on stage,
482
00:29:23,936 --> 00:29:25,981
it's inherently political.
483
00:29:29,332 --> 00:29:31,726
It's easier for people
if fat ladies are funny.
484
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,989
You know, it's easier for
people if you do your thing,
485
00:29:34,033 --> 00:29:37,079
and it's cute,
and it's sanitized,
486
00:29:37,123 --> 00:29:38,472
and it's not meant
to be sexy,
487
00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:39,865
and it's not supposed
to be dirty,
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00:29:39,908 --> 00:29:41,344
and it's not supposed
to be erotic.
489
00:29:48,264 --> 00:29:50,745
People come up to me
after my show and say, like,
490
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,878
"When are you
performing again?
491
00:29:52,921 --> 00:29:54,923
"My wife looks like you,
and she's so beautiful,
492
00:29:54,967 --> 00:29:57,534
"and I love her, and she won't
let me see her naked,
493
00:29:57,578 --> 00:29:59,188
"and I need her to come here
so she can see
494
00:29:59,232 --> 00:30:01,234
what I see
when I look at her."
495
00:30:04,324 --> 00:30:06,326
You know, like people
say those things to me,
496
00:30:06,369 --> 00:30:09,764
so I know that what I do
has that effect on people,
497
00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,897
and I think, well...
498
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,247
what would it mean
if I were like...
499
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:15,770
if I were really thin?
500
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,467
Like, would my work
still be political?
501
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,276
[emcee]
Give it up for Jezebel Express,
ladies and gentlemen!
502
00:30:48,977 --> 00:30:51,501
[alarm clock buzzes]
503
00:31:02,730 --> 00:31:04,775
[tap water running]
504
00:31:08,692 --> 00:31:10,520
[spits]
505
00:31:16,962 --> 00:31:18,789
[Hazel]
I worked in an office.
506
00:31:19,965 --> 00:31:22,010
Regular 9-to-5 job.
507
00:31:22,054 --> 00:31:24,926
It wasn't what I had ever
set out to do.
508
00:31:24,970 --> 00:31:28,408
It just ended up being a job
I fell into,
509
00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:30,497
And I stayed
because it was easy.
510
00:31:30,540 --> 00:31:33,543
I told my boss
that I was quitting.
511
00:31:35,284 --> 00:31:37,939
I said,
"I'm putting in my notice.
512
00:31:37,983 --> 00:31:42,683
I'm going to become a full-time burlesque performer."
513
00:31:42,726 --> 00:31:45,686
[Scott]
I always try to be supportive
of anything she wants to do.
514
00:31:45,729 --> 00:31:48,167
But I was a little bit nervous.
515
00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:51,083
Cognitively, it took a second
to get used to the idea
516
00:31:51,126 --> 00:31:52,823
that my wife wanted
to perform naked
517
00:31:52,867 --> 00:31:54,913
for rooms full of strangers.
518
00:31:56,044 --> 00:31:57,567
Hazel and I met
519
00:31:57,611 --> 00:31:59,265
on the very first day
of college.
520
00:32:00,831 --> 00:32:03,225
In addition to being pretty,
521
00:32:03,269 --> 00:32:05,836
one of the first things
that attracted me to Hazel
522
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,708
was that I came
into her dorm room
523
00:32:07,751 --> 00:32:10,972
and she had brought
a Super Nintendo to college.
524
00:32:11,016 --> 00:32:13,018
So she had this, like,
retro gaming thing,
525
00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:15,237
and then she mopped
the floor with me
526
00:32:15,281 --> 00:32:16,717
when we played
"Dr. Mario,"
527
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,458
which had never happened
in my life before.
528
00:32:18,501 --> 00:32:19,763
[laughs]
529
00:32:19,807 --> 00:32:22,462
And to this day,
I can't touch her.
530
00:32:25,856 --> 00:32:28,207
This is my newest costume.
531
00:32:29,338 --> 00:32:32,341
It's a Beholder,
532
00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:36,867
which is a monster from
the Dungeons & Dragons universe.
533
00:32:38,826 --> 00:32:40,784
It has eyeballs.
534
00:32:41,785 --> 00:32:44,005
[laughs]
535
00:32:44,049 --> 00:32:46,529
It also has this bra
that blinks.
536
00:32:54,494 --> 00:32:55,582
[sighs]
537
00:32:55,625 --> 00:32:57,410
And voilà.
538
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,414
Pretty good, right?
539
00:33:04,112 --> 00:33:07,333
I learned to use a sewing
machine from my mother.
540
00:33:07,376 --> 00:33:11,598
But I never had
any actual training.
541
00:33:12,642 --> 00:33:15,036
I love making costumes,
542
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,777
create something
that you can hold up
543
00:33:16,820 --> 00:33:20,476
and show people and say, look,
I did this. [laughs]
544
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,958
[Scott] She really hit
the ground running.
545
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,134
One day my wife had never been
on a stage before,
546
00:33:26,178 --> 00:33:28,876
two days later she had shows
booked out
547
00:33:28,919 --> 00:33:32,532
for the end
of the month.
548
00:33:32,575 --> 00:33:35,143
[Hazel]
Since getting into burlesque,
549
00:33:35,187 --> 00:33:42,237
I've really come out
of my shell, to use a cliché.
550
00:33:43,151 --> 00:33:46,241
And maybe I went
a little overboard.
551
00:33:46,285 --> 00:33:47,721
[laughs]
552
00:33:47,764 --> 00:33:49,201
[Scott]
I didn't really understand
553
00:33:49,244 --> 00:33:51,029
what burlesque was.
554
00:33:51,072 --> 00:33:53,292
You know, I learned a lot,
and I had to learn quickly.
555
00:33:53,335 --> 00:33:57,078
Because she fell in love
with it.
556
00:33:57,122 --> 00:33:59,820
[woman]
♪ I've got my man
557
00:33:59,863 --> 00:34:03,128
♪ In his Wrangler jeans
558
00:34:03,171 --> 00:34:06,131
I've got my man ♪
559
00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:09,047
♪ Bull-riding machine
560
00:34:09,090 --> 00:34:12,311
♪ He's on the road
561
00:34:12,354 --> 00:34:15,314
♪ Away from me
562
00:34:15,357 --> 00:34:19,013
[Hazel]
Now I work four to six
nights a week,
563
00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:23,974
and I'm fully supported
by my burlesque income.
564
00:34:24,018 --> 00:34:25,846
I'm established now
but I'm--
565
00:34:25,889 --> 00:34:28,109
you know, I'm not really
a veteran performer,
566
00:34:28,153 --> 00:34:31,721
so I still kind of see myself
as one of the newbies
567
00:34:31,765 --> 00:34:35,986
trying to gain the respect
of the veteran performers.
568
00:34:36,030 --> 00:34:39,077
[woman]
♪ Yeah, yeah, he loves me
569
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,122
♪ I'm his rodeo queen
570
00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,168
[audience applauds]
571
00:34:44,778 --> 00:34:46,910
[sultry music plays]
572
00:34:48,738 --> 00:34:51,001
[crowd whoops]
573
00:35:02,578 --> 00:35:04,319
[song ends]
574
00:35:04,363 --> 00:35:07,017
[audience cheers]
575
00:35:07,061 --> 00:35:10,543
[Gal Friday]
My hair has always been
such a part of my identity.
576
00:35:10,586 --> 00:35:14,982
It was sort of that thing where I thought it's who I was,
577
00:35:15,025 --> 00:35:18,246
or people kind of expected
a certain look for me.
578
00:35:20,161 --> 00:35:21,684
And then one day I was like,
fuck that,
579
00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:24,078
I'm just going
to cut my hair. [laughs]
580
00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:26,559
I was so tired of just being
about my hair.
581
00:35:27,864 --> 00:35:29,388
My hair was my saving grace.
582
00:35:29,431 --> 00:35:31,390
The face could be just
fucked up, and it's like,
583
00:35:31,433 --> 00:35:32,782
but look at that hair.
584
00:35:32,826 --> 00:35:34,741
And then I just
took that away.
585
00:35:41,922 --> 00:35:43,271
I think these will be okay.
586
00:35:43,315 --> 00:35:45,404
If they're too long
they hit.
587
00:35:47,493 --> 00:35:49,451
As small as it might be,
588
00:35:49,495 --> 00:35:52,280
the thought is that people
are not necessarily
589
00:35:52,324 --> 00:35:54,761
going to take you seriously
because you don't look like,
590
00:35:54,804 --> 00:35:58,678
to them, what the idea
of a burlesque performer is.
591
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:27,402
There are some girls
who are really adept
592
00:36:27,446 --> 00:36:28,882
at sewing and designing,
593
00:36:28,925 --> 00:36:30,449
and so they can make
their own stuff.
594
00:36:30,492 --> 00:36:33,147
And then there are others,
like myself,
595
00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:35,845
where we might have
this concept
596
00:36:35,889 --> 00:36:37,195
and we'll design it and,
you know,
597
00:36:37,238 --> 00:36:38,631
draw it out
and have this idea,
598
00:36:38,674 --> 00:36:40,110
and then take it to someone
599
00:36:40,154 --> 00:36:42,243
who knows what the fuck
they're doing.
600
00:36:42,287 --> 00:36:44,506
I just got this one made.
601
00:36:44,550 --> 00:36:47,944
I was hoping to debut it
602
00:36:47,988 --> 00:36:50,251
at the New York
Burlesque Festival.
603
00:36:50,295 --> 00:36:53,428
But that is actually
coming down the pike.
604
00:37:04,744 --> 00:37:06,659
[audience cheers]
605
00:37:14,667 --> 00:37:16,843
[applause]
606
00:37:16,886 --> 00:37:19,149
Every year I'm so honored
to be a part of it.
607
00:37:19,193 --> 00:37:23,632
When I first started,
I applied and got in.
608
00:37:23,676 --> 00:37:27,070
I remember then how much
it meant to me for,
609
00:37:27,114 --> 00:37:30,291
as a first-year performer
getting into a festival,
610
00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:32,250
you know, and the first one
I'd applied to.
611
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:36,993
And so it just really holds that special place in my heart.
612
00:37:37,037 --> 00:37:39,822
The actual costume itself
is pretty much ready,
613
00:37:39,866 --> 00:37:44,914
but I don't know
if the act is ready.
614
00:37:44,958 --> 00:37:47,439
[man on recording]
♪ Schlep-A-Con
Schlep-A-- Schlep-A-Con ♪
615
00:37:47,482 --> 00:37:49,092
[Minnie] Running man.
616
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,751
[Darlinda]
We looked at a video of it, and feedback from other people,
617
00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:57,231
like, yeah,
it's a great act,
618
00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:58,667
but it's just like
all your other acts.
619
00:37:58,711 --> 00:38:00,321
You do this, you do this,
and we just...
620
00:38:00,365 --> 00:38:02,192
just kind of recycled
a lot of our old moves.
621
00:38:02,236 --> 00:38:05,935
And so we were just, like,
let's try to rework it.
622
00:38:05,979 --> 00:38:10,331
Basically, we decided to make
it a little bit more comical.
623
00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:14,596
Like, oh, we're trying to do
like '80s hip-hop moves.
624
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,816
Which is comical
in its creation,
625
00:38:16,859 --> 00:38:18,731
because, like,
we don't know any.
626
00:38:18,774 --> 00:38:21,690
Down, down, down, down,
627
00:38:21,734 --> 00:38:23,866
down, down, down,
628
00:38:23,910 --> 00:38:25,564
down, down.
629
00:38:25,607 --> 00:38:27,870
When we do this, we're not going
to be touching hands.
630
00:38:27,914 --> 00:38:30,351
-Just to note.
-Mm-hmm.
631
00:38:30,395 --> 00:38:33,746
No, see, it's just
like, down.
632
00:38:33,789 --> 00:38:35,269
Seven, eight...
633
00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:38,794
[Darlinda]
That's after.
634
00:38:38,838 --> 00:38:41,406
Because we take off
our pants.
635
00:38:42,624 --> 00:38:44,322
Boom, boom.
636
00:38:47,107 --> 00:38:48,978
Do you want
some coconut water?
637
00:38:49,022 --> 00:38:51,067
Yeah. It's good.
638
00:38:52,286 --> 00:38:54,114
-[sighs]
-Okay.
639
00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,598
[Hazel]
I would absolutely love
640
00:38:59,641 --> 00:39:01,469
to perform at Burlesque
Hall of Fame Weekend.
641
00:39:01,513 --> 00:39:04,690
It would definitely
be amazing
642
00:39:04,733 --> 00:39:08,389
to perform on that
humungous stage
643
00:39:08,433 --> 00:39:12,437
for all of... for all of these
people that I admire.
644
00:39:17,703 --> 00:39:19,574
[mouthing]
645
00:39:23,273 --> 00:39:25,450
It's a huge deal
to come to Vegas.
646
00:39:25,493 --> 00:39:28,931
You know, because people are coming from all over the world.
647
00:39:28,975 --> 00:39:33,458
And they get a lot
of applications.
648
00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:36,765
[man]
Five, six, seven, eight.
649
00:39:36,809 --> 00:39:40,160
♪ Bumblebee, bumblebee
Bumblebee ♪
650
00:39:40,203 --> 00:39:41,901
-[Shelly] Chin down.
-[Hazel] ♪ Bumblebee
651
00:39:41,944 --> 00:39:46,035
♪ Bumblebee, bumblebee
Bumblebee, bumblebee ♪
652
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:47,733
Excellent. Let's do
a couple of lions.
653
00:39:47,776 --> 00:39:49,169
Do you remember those?
654
00:39:49,212 --> 00:39:51,040
Super-super-super
scrunch that face, Hazel,
655
00:39:51,084 --> 00:39:52,738
and then open really wide.
656
00:39:52,781 --> 00:39:54,609
Ah.
657
00:39:54,653 --> 00:39:57,133
One more,
super-super-super...
658
00:39:57,177 --> 00:39:58,787
I'm very nervous
about singing.
659
00:39:58,831 --> 00:40:00,267
It's...
660
00:40:00,310 --> 00:40:02,878
like, it's a scary thing
to get up and--
661
00:40:02,922 --> 00:40:05,925
to get up in front
of people and sing.
662
00:40:05,968 --> 00:40:09,537
It's much scarier
than getting naked on stage.
663
00:40:09,581 --> 00:40:11,191
All right,
so here we go.
664
00:40:11,234 --> 00:40:12,584
Boobs.
665
00:40:14,107 --> 00:40:17,371
♪ You've gotta have boobs
666
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:21,680
♪ If you want to impress
Tycoons and rubes ♪
667
00:40:21,723 --> 00:40:24,291
-Good!
-♪ You need boobs
668
00:40:24,334 --> 00:40:27,250
♪ To fill out a sweater
669
00:40:27,294 --> 00:40:32,255
♪ You'll get two
But three might be better ♪
670
00:40:32,299 --> 00:40:34,475
That's one in the back
for dancing.
671
00:40:38,044 --> 00:40:44,006
[Shelly]
I think one of the things
that separates Hazel
672
00:40:44,050 --> 00:40:46,922
is her continuing drive
673
00:40:46,966 --> 00:40:51,361
to better herself
as an artist as a total,
674
00:40:51,405 --> 00:40:54,582
and not just
as a really pretty girl.
675
00:40:54,626 --> 00:40:56,454
Like, I honestly
don't even think
676
00:40:56,497 --> 00:40:58,847
that Hazel looks at herself
and is like,
677
00:40:58,891 --> 00:41:00,545
Oh, my God, I'm so hot.
678
00:41:00,588 --> 00:41:02,198
Like, there's a lot
of other girls who are, like,
679
00:41:02,242 --> 00:41:05,680
as hot as her that are just,
like, super cunty.
680
00:41:05,724 --> 00:41:06,942
[laughs]
681
00:41:06,986 --> 00:41:08,466
And Hazel just isn't.
682
00:41:08,509 --> 00:41:12,382
♪ Even a cow has to show
Her udders ♪
683
00:41:12,426 --> 00:41:15,995
-Good. And keep it going.
-♪ You got to have boobs
684
00:41:16,038 --> 00:41:17,300
[Shelly laughs]
685
00:41:17,344 --> 00:41:19,999
♪ B-O-O-B-S
686
00:41:20,042 --> 00:41:21,870
Okay, now this one's a little
bit crisper, right?
687
00:41:21,914 --> 00:41:24,743
I want to sing to prove
that I can do it.
688
00:41:26,005 --> 00:41:31,489
I want to sing so that
I can show people
689
00:41:31,532 --> 00:41:34,230
that I can get up there
and do a lot more
690
00:41:34,274 --> 00:41:39,497
to entertain people than,
you know, smile and get naked.
691
00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:43,892
♪ Make a man stand right up
And take his hat off ♪
692
00:41:43,936 --> 00:41:45,459
Yes, much better.
You hear that?
693
00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:46,547
Because you say--
694
00:41:46,591 --> 00:41:47,940
♪ Ha
695
00:41:47,983 --> 00:41:49,202
It gives you a chance
to hit that.
696
00:41:49,245 --> 00:41:50,464
But once you get to that O--
697
00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:52,335
♪ Hat off
698
00:41:52,379 --> 00:41:54,599
[both singing sustained notes]
699
00:41:57,079 --> 00:41:59,952
That's it. One more time,
so I know it's not a fluke.
700
00:42:03,608 --> 00:42:05,261
[man]
Are you coming out in a bra?
701
00:42:05,305 --> 00:42:07,307
[Minnie]
I'm coming out, and this is it.
702
00:42:07,350 --> 00:42:09,483
This is the costume.
Like the only things
that I take off
703
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:13,052
are going to be bra
and gloves,
704
00:42:13,095 --> 00:42:15,533
bra and skirt,
and potentially this thing.
705
00:42:15,576 --> 00:42:17,273
Okay, gloves.
706
00:42:17,317 --> 00:42:19,188
[Minnie]
I mean, the idea really,
707
00:42:19,232 --> 00:42:21,190
I think, is spinning the records
on my boobs.
708
00:42:21,234 --> 00:42:23,541
Yeah. That's like
the pièce de résistance.
709
00:42:23,584 --> 00:42:28,763
Yeah. So, like, this is more
just like, hey, hello.
710
00:42:28,807 --> 00:42:31,810
-I'm covered in something '80s.
-Yeah.
711
00:42:31,853 --> 00:42:33,681
[Garo]
I mean, '80s was all about,
712
00:42:33,725 --> 00:42:35,727
like, the high waist
and it's cute to have, like,
713
00:42:35,770 --> 00:42:37,467
that little midriff section,
714
00:42:37,511 --> 00:42:40,732
so you're not showing, like,
too much skin.
715
00:42:40,775 --> 00:42:44,213
But, Sarah, we should take her
bust, waist, hips and length.
716
00:42:44,257 --> 00:42:46,607
There's certain
unique challenges
717
00:42:46,651 --> 00:42:48,522
when you're working
with a burlesque client
718
00:42:48,566 --> 00:42:51,220
rather than another client,
719
00:42:51,264 --> 00:42:52,831
just because, of course,
you have to think
720
00:42:52,874 --> 00:42:54,615
of the mechanics
of the outfit.
721
00:42:54,659 --> 00:42:56,965
The mechanics of how
it relates to the act,
722
00:42:57,009 --> 00:43:01,013
the mechanics of how
it's going to come off.
723
00:43:01,056 --> 00:43:02,580
So there's no, like,
bumps in the road.
724
00:43:02,623 --> 00:43:05,147
That thing has
to snap off quickly,
725
00:43:05,191 --> 00:43:07,802
that zipper has
to come off smoothly.
726
00:43:07,846 --> 00:43:10,022
It's got to be beautiful
as it's coming off as well,
727
00:43:10,065 --> 00:43:11,719
the inside and the outside,
728
00:43:11,763 --> 00:43:13,547
because everybody is looking
at everything.
729
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,723
Now, I'm going to leave
my finger there,
730
00:43:15,767 --> 00:43:18,508
so see if you can comfortably
unzip yourself.
731
00:43:18,552 --> 00:43:19,988
-Like that? So...
-Yeah.
732
00:43:20,032 --> 00:43:21,816
[Garo whistles]
Yeah.
733
00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:25,080
Burlesque is such an exciting
thing to work on,
734
00:43:25,124 --> 00:43:27,517
because you're constantly
working on something
735
00:43:27,561 --> 00:43:29,650
that is meant
to transform
736
00:43:29,694 --> 00:43:32,435
from one state to another,
and to fool the audience.
737
00:43:32,479 --> 00:43:34,307
And it's always
such a huge challenge
738
00:43:34,350 --> 00:43:38,267
to have that burlesquer
come out on stage,
739
00:43:38,311 --> 00:43:40,661
and have the audience
not size her up and be like,
740
00:43:40,705 --> 00:43:44,099
okay, that's coming off first
and that's coming off second.
741
00:43:44,143 --> 00:43:46,972
Close your eyes
and open your hand.
742
00:43:50,062 --> 00:43:51,367
-Yay!
-[laughs]
743
00:43:51,411 --> 00:43:53,021
[giggles]
744
00:43:53,065 --> 00:43:55,154
It's a down payment.
745
00:43:58,592 --> 00:44:01,726
[Minnie] When I first
started out in 2004,
746
00:44:01,769 --> 00:44:04,032
you know, at that time
it just was this place
747
00:44:04,076 --> 00:44:07,253
where you could just
really experiment.
748
00:44:09,124 --> 00:44:12,519
Back then,
everyone was so individual,
749
00:44:12,562 --> 00:44:15,043
what they were creating
in burlesque,
750
00:44:15,087 --> 00:44:18,699
that if someone
was wearing a panel skirt,
751
00:44:18,743 --> 00:44:21,484
if someone like ever wore that, no one would do that,
752
00:44:21,528 --> 00:44:23,486
because that was like,
oh, they're doing that.
753
00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:27,926
Okay, cool, then I'm going
to go and, you know, whatever.
754
00:44:31,886 --> 00:44:34,976
No one is burlesque
was skinny then.
755
00:44:46,074 --> 00:44:47,772
[car horn honks]
756
00:44:49,687 --> 00:44:51,427
[police siren wailing distantly]
757
00:44:56,955 --> 00:45:00,872
It seems that there is
a trend that,
758
00:45:00,915 --> 00:45:03,657
since burlesque has become
mainstream,
759
00:45:03,701 --> 00:45:06,791
that restaurants
and more upscale bars
760
00:45:06,834 --> 00:45:10,708
are interested in having
this sort of entertainment.
761
00:45:13,667 --> 00:45:16,452
Throughout history,
burlesque has been a source of,
762
00:45:16,496 --> 00:45:17,976
like, lowbrow entertainment.
763
00:45:18,019 --> 00:45:20,282
It's cheap, you know,
accessible.
764
00:45:20,326 --> 00:45:22,545
Anyone can come. Like, people
used to bring their wives.
765
00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:24,634
It was like, you know, my mom
even saw a burlesque show,
766
00:45:24,678 --> 00:45:26,027
like, when she was a kid
with her dad,
767
00:45:26,071 --> 00:45:27,855
because he went to go
see a jazz band.
768
00:45:30,336 --> 00:45:33,295
However, people are kind of
glomming onto it,
769
00:45:33,339 --> 00:45:34,644
you know, trying
to make it highbrow,
770
00:45:34,688 --> 00:45:35,776
or trying to make it
771
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:37,778
only for people with money,
772
00:45:37,822 --> 00:45:40,520
or only for people who want
to look at skinny people,
773
00:45:40,563 --> 00:45:42,914
or one body type.
774
00:45:42,957 --> 00:45:44,916
And the people that are kind of buying into that,
775
00:45:44,959 --> 00:45:48,746
it's not coming from a place
of soul or heart.
776
00:45:48,789 --> 00:45:50,617
[audience whooping]
777
00:46:00,322 --> 00:46:01,584
[man]
778
00:46:01,628 --> 00:46:03,325
[Hazel]
I do, very much.
779
00:46:07,808 --> 00:46:09,810
[Hazel]
Today, I signed a contract
780
00:46:09,854 --> 00:46:12,770
to perform in Atlantic City
this summer.
781
00:46:12,813 --> 00:46:15,990
I'm going to be doing shows
once a week
782
00:46:16,034 --> 00:46:17,818
at the Borgata Casino.
783
00:46:21,213 --> 00:46:23,781
I never thought that I would be in this situation:
784
00:46:23,824 --> 00:46:29,134
more work than I need, and being in demand as a performer.
785
00:46:31,310 --> 00:46:32,833
It's like a dream come true,
786
00:46:32,877 --> 00:46:34,530
except that I never actually
had this dream,
787
00:46:34,574 --> 00:46:37,055
because I didn't know
that it was a possibility.
788
00:46:39,927 --> 00:46:42,277
Even a couple years ago,
I would say
789
00:46:42,321 --> 00:46:44,062
I'm not going to be performing
all the time.
790
00:46:44,105 --> 00:46:46,891
I'm just going to be performing for fun.
791
00:46:49,328 --> 00:46:51,156
But now I'm performing
all the time,
792
00:46:51,199 --> 00:46:53,941
and I travel, and...
793
00:46:56,074 --> 00:46:57,510
the casino
really spoils me.
794
00:46:57,553 --> 00:46:59,425
[laughs]
795
00:47:00,513 --> 00:47:02,123
[Minnie]
Quite frankly,
796
00:47:02,167 --> 00:47:04,822
burlesque does not
pay the bills,
797
00:47:04,865 --> 00:47:06,780
and my rent
is really expensive.
798
00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:10,218
And so I, um...
799
00:47:11,567 --> 00:47:13,874
I need to figure
something else out
800
00:47:13,918 --> 00:47:16,137
in terms of my income.
801
00:47:16,181 --> 00:47:19,706
But the thought of going back
to a full-time day job right now
802
00:47:19,749 --> 00:47:21,273
is like...
803
00:47:21,316 --> 00:47:24,363
just makes me feel, like, awful.
804
00:47:24,406 --> 00:47:25,799
[laughs]
805
00:47:27,627 --> 00:47:30,630
[Tatah Dujour]
806
00:47:30,673 --> 00:47:32,458
-[Minnie] We are--
-[Tatah] Totally down.
807
00:47:48,648 --> 00:47:50,345
[Minnie]
808
00:47:53,348 --> 00:47:55,263
Some people just don't
like the city.
809
00:47:55,307 --> 00:47:56,786
[Minnie]
No, and I understand that.
810
00:47:56,830 --> 00:47:58,440
-Yeah.
-I guess it's like
811
00:47:58,484 --> 00:48:01,008
they're in an awkward,
unfortunate position,
812
00:48:01,052 --> 00:48:02,923
because they're right next
to New York.
813
00:48:02,967 --> 00:48:05,708
I mean, and you know
that I'm not New York-centric.
814
00:48:18,417 --> 00:48:20,419
Take a right,
take a right.
815
00:48:24,553 --> 00:48:26,077
Whoo-hoo!
816
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,471
-Let's do Newark!
-Let's do Newark!
817
00:48:29,515 --> 00:48:31,256
[dance music throbs]
818
00:48:31,299 --> 00:48:32,822
Hi.
819
00:48:32,866 --> 00:48:34,781
Good to see you.
820
00:48:34,824 --> 00:48:36,391
Hi.
821
00:48:36,435 --> 00:48:39,525
-How are you?
-Good.
822
00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:52,364
It is really dank more than
normal back here, down here.
823
00:48:53,321 --> 00:48:55,454
-Is this mold?
-Uh-huh.
824
00:48:56,716 --> 00:48:58,544
Is that-- that's bad.
825
00:48:58,587 --> 00:48:59,806
Mold is bad.
826
00:48:59,849 --> 00:49:01,416
[laughs]
827
00:49:15,213 --> 00:49:17,389
[sighs]
828
00:49:17,432 --> 00:49:19,391
And we're here.
829
00:49:21,784 --> 00:49:23,873
-Are you slamming the wine?
-Yeah.
830
00:49:23,917 --> 00:49:25,527
[groans]
831
00:49:27,051 --> 00:49:28,835
Oh, Lord.
832
00:49:28,878 --> 00:49:30,402
Okay.
833
00:49:32,056 --> 00:49:34,014
Let's do this shit.
834
00:49:36,060 --> 00:49:37,713
[emcee]
835
00:49:39,150 --> 00:49:40,673
We will play some music,
836
00:49:40,716 --> 00:49:42,327
and you guys are going
to show them
837
00:49:42,370 --> 00:49:44,068
lots and lots of love,
lots and lots of joy.
838
00:49:44,111 --> 00:49:46,374
Let them know that you're having
a great time.
839
00:49:46,418 --> 00:49:48,855
And then you get
to see the goods, you dig?
840
00:49:48,898 --> 00:49:52,032
The magic of burlesque.
841
00:49:52,076 --> 00:49:53,991
And the power of boobies.
Salut.
842
00:49:54,034 --> 00:49:55,644
[audience cheers]
843
00:49:56,732 --> 00:49:58,865
[sultry music plays]
844
00:50:31,245 --> 00:50:33,987
[Hazel] Doing burlesque full-time is...
845
00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:35,728
is hard work.
846
00:50:37,469 --> 00:50:42,126
You know, working every night,
practicing and rehearsing.
847
00:50:56,183 --> 00:50:58,359
[audience cheers]
848
00:51:06,933 --> 00:51:09,457
It's a lot of fun, but I don't
want to see myself
849
00:51:09,501 --> 00:51:14,375
working in little bars
several years down the road.
850
00:51:16,029 --> 00:51:17,726
I got it, thank you.
851
00:51:17,770 --> 00:51:20,555
Oy. Okay.
852
00:51:40,749 --> 00:51:44,362
[Gal Friday]
As the New York Burlesque
Festival was coming up,
853
00:51:44,405 --> 00:51:47,843
I was so nervous
for this act.
854
00:51:56,243 --> 00:51:58,202
I was all stressed out about it because I was like,
855
00:51:58,245 --> 00:52:00,813
is this going to work,
or is this boring?
856
00:52:00,856 --> 00:52:04,208
I'm not doing that much.
857
00:52:05,644 --> 00:52:07,559
I was really scared.
858
00:52:19,092 --> 00:52:22,574
For me, I'm not that quick
to make a new act.
859
00:52:23,662 --> 00:52:26,055
It's very costly and,
you know,
860
00:52:26,099 --> 00:52:27,666
sometimes it's just like
the inspiration
861
00:52:27,709 --> 00:52:30,190
to do that
just isn't there.
862
00:52:30,234 --> 00:52:32,236
I could go-go in this.
863
00:52:34,803 --> 00:52:36,675
-Oh, yeah.
-[laughs]
864
00:52:36,718 --> 00:52:38,894
[Gal Friday]
When you first
start performing,
865
00:52:38,938 --> 00:52:40,244
you're excited.
866
00:52:40,287 --> 00:52:42,071
So you're just
pumping out,
867
00:52:42,115 --> 00:52:43,247
and you're coming up with all
these ideas,
868
00:52:43,290 --> 00:52:44,422
and you're going fucking nuts.
869
00:52:44,465 --> 00:52:46,467
And everything feels fresh.
870
00:52:46,511 --> 00:52:50,210
Well, after a while things
aren't gonna be fresh anymore.
871
00:52:50,254 --> 00:52:53,735
Please welcome to the stage
Gal Friday!
872
00:52:56,738 --> 00:52:59,654
[seductive music playing]
873
00:52:59,698 --> 00:53:02,309
[Gal Friday]
So now you have to start
asking yourself, you know,
874
00:53:02,353 --> 00:53:05,921
"What am I getting out of this? What are they getting
out of this?"
875
00:53:15,540 --> 00:53:18,456
Everybody goes through moments when they don't feel confident.
876
00:53:18,499 --> 00:53:19,979
You know, it's hard.
877
00:53:21,502 --> 00:53:25,767
Especially when you're a naked
lady on stage, you know,
878
00:53:25,811 --> 00:53:28,248
there's a lot of things
going through your head.
879
00:53:28,292 --> 00:53:29,902
Am I pretty enough?
880
00:53:29,945 --> 00:53:32,644
Is my body good enough?
And all that crap.
881
00:53:44,656 --> 00:53:46,223
But once you're onstage,
882
00:53:46,266 --> 00:53:49,748
your job is to entertain
your audience.
883
00:53:49,791 --> 00:53:54,056
Just go in, and it's a job,
and you're like, zoom.
884
00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:56,233
[jazzy music playing]
885
00:54:04,632 --> 00:54:05,807
[music ends]
886
00:54:05,851 --> 00:54:08,506
[siren wails]
887
00:54:19,821 --> 00:54:21,997
As the years go by,
888
00:54:22,041 --> 00:54:27,220
I wish I also had something
else that I could do.
889
00:54:27,264 --> 00:54:30,441
There's only so far I think
I can go with this,
890
00:54:30,484 --> 00:54:32,399
but I don't, at this point
in my life,
891
00:54:32,443 --> 00:54:34,967
really have that many
other options.
892
00:54:35,010 --> 00:54:36,621
I went to school
for theater.
893
00:54:36,664 --> 00:54:39,580
Might as well shoot yourself
in the foot.
894
00:54:41,626 --> 00:54:44,106
That's actually why
I moved here to New York.
895
00:54:44,150 --> 00:54:46,108
I wanted to be
a part of that.
896
00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:52,332
I just wasn't cut out
for the hustle of it.
897
00:54:52,376 --> 00:54:55,379
The cutthroat nature of it,
it just wasn't for me.
898
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:02,037
And then there's the guilt
that goes with it,
899
00:55:02,081 --> 00:55:04,083
because you move here and
everybody back home is going,
900
00:55:04,126 --> 00:55:05,606
"So, what are you doing now?"
901
00:55:05,650 --> 00:55:08,130
And it's like,
I'm waiting tables.
902
00:55:10,611 --> 00:55:13,048
You feel like a big fucking
loser and a disappointment.
903
00:55:14,572 --> 00:55:16,269
All the things your mom
ever said to you,
904
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:18,489
like, this is a pipe dream.
905
00:55:18,532 --> 00:55:21,274
You know, what are you doing
with yourself?
906
00:55:33,330 --> 00:55:37,856
[Minnie]
Right now I'm going through a
lot of transitions in my life.
907
00:55:37,899 --> 00:55:43,470
I was diagnosed
with seronegative arthritis,
908
00:55:43,514 --> 00:55:46,430
which is a version of rheumatoid
arthritis, in 2000.
909
00:55:57,441 --> 00:55:58,920
I was in remission
for 10 years,
910
00:55:58,964 --> 00:56:00,531
and then it came back.
911
00:56:02,010 --> 00:56:05,187
It's very complex.
912
00:56:05,231 --> 00:56:09,148
Like I look healthy
and I look like, good.
913
00:56:09,191 --> 00:56:14,632
But I don't always feel good
and I'm not fully healthy.
914
00:56:33,912 --> 00:56:36,131
[Darlinda] Maybe we can
run through our new number
915
00:56:36,175 --> 00:56:38,395
just on the stage
with, like, our phones.
916
00:56:38,438 --> 00:56:39,613
Okay.
917
00:56:39,657 --> 00:56:41,746
[Minnie]
My body was so bad,
918
00:56:41,789 --> 00:56:45,140
it was so--
I could barely move.
919
00:56:45,184 --> 00:56:48,840
My range of motion and my flexibility is very limited,
920
00:56:48,883 --> 00:56:53,497
because my knees are in so much
pain and they're so stiff.
921
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,719
For shows, usually
adrenaline kicks in,
922
00:56:58,763 --> 00:57:00,417
but that's not healthy
to live on adrenaline,
923
00:57:00,460 --> 00:57:02,375
and to perform
on adrenaline.
924
00:57:02,419 --> 00:57:04,725
If we could just play
Scott's intro,
925
00:57:04,769 --> 00:57:08,207
and then we'll play
your opening number, okay?
926
00:57:08,250 --> 00:57:10,252
[man singing scales]
927
00:57:10,296 --> 00:57:12,037
[Darlinda]
I see the changes in Minnie.
928
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,431
She has some days
that are really hard,
929
00:57:14,474 --> 00:57:16,781
and it can be
really frustrating for me,
930
00:57:16,824 --> 00:57:19,000
because it's like, oh, well,
we can't go down on the floor,
931
00:57:19,044 --> 00:57:21,612
you know, or we can't do this
or we can't do this.
932
00:57:21,655 --> 00:57:24,484
You know, sometimes I feel like,
how are we gonna get any better
933
00:57:24,528 --> 00:57:27,008
if you can't do
this thing?
934
00:57:27,052 --> 00:57:30,751
[woman] We have another
East Village legend.
935
00:57:30,795 --> 00:57:36,061
She is considered the one-woman riot of burlesque.
936
00:57:36,104 --> 00:57:38,498
Let's give it up
for Minnie Tonka.
937
00:57:38,542 --> 00:57:41,762
Minnie Tonka!
938
00:57:41,806 --> 00:57:44,461
-[audience cheers]
-[rock music plays]
939
00:57:50,902 --> 00:57:57,952
[Minnie]
I've been so selective in what
energy I'm going to put out.
940
00:57:58,257 --> 00:58:00,738
But at the same time
it's been this balance.
941
00:58:00,781 --> 00:58:02,957
Like, oh, I don't want people
to forget about me, you know?
942
00:58:03,001 --> 00:58:05,917
So it's like,
I have to keep this persona
943
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,049
of, like, Minnie Tonka,
whoo-hoo!
944
00:58:08,093 --> 00:58:10,574
[audience cheering]
945
00:58:16,275 --> 00:58:18,930
It's been this massive,
946
00:58:18,973 --> 00:58:23,369
just emotional and physical
journey and change.
947
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,026
I think my perspective
on everything
948
00:58:28,069 --> 00:58:30,419
is changing right now.
949
00:58:31,464 --> 00:58:33,553
[percussion music playing]
950
00:58:35,860 --> 00:58:38,079
Hello, motherfuckers!
951
00:58:38,123 --> 00:58:40,386
[audience cheers]
952
00:58:40,429 --> 00:58:46,000
And welcome to the 12th annual
New York Burlesque Festival.
953
00:58:46,044 --> 00:58:47,959
[all cheer]
954
00:59:15,334 --> 00:59:19,338
He's thinking, is it a man or
a woman, is it a man or a woman?
955
00:59:19,381 --> 00:59:21,427
Sir, the answer is no.
956
00:59:22,471 --> 00:59:23,864
[laughter]
957
00:59:23,908 --> 00:59:26,301
[Jen Gapay]
It's been going great.
958
00:59:26,345 --> 00:59:27,825
We're on Day 3 today.
959
00:59:27,868 --> 00:59:29,827
We are at the
Saturday Spectacular
960
00:59:29,870 --> 00:59:31,785
in B.B. King's
in Times Square.
961
00:59:31,829 --> 00:59:36,747
This is kind of our
crème de la crme of performers.
962
00:59:36,790 --> 00:59:39,619
Murray Hill hosts tonight.
963
00:59:39,663 --> 00:59:42,143
And then we feature
basically the best in burlesque
964
00:59:42,187 --> 00:59:43,841
from around the world.
965
00:59:49,629 --> 00:59:51,196
This is for all the ladies
966
00:59:51,239 --> 00:59:54,373
who think living
in New York City is glamorous.
967
00:59:59,508 --> 01:00:01,859
I got really sick.
968
01:00:01,902 --> 01:00:03,774
Like I had a panic attack
just before.
969
01:00:03,817 --> 01:00:05,645
[car horn honks]
970
01:00:05,689 --> 01:00:07,647
This might be something
that the audience might not
971
01:00:07,691 --> 01:00:10,432
like it or get it.
972
01:00:10,476 --> 01:00:12,478
If an act is weird,
sometimes if people
973
01:00:12,521 --> 01:00:14,088
are uncomfortable
or if it's weird-looking,
974
01:00:14,132 --> 01:00:16,482
if people are uncomfortable
they'll laugh.
975
01:00:16,525 --> 01:00:20,051
I was afraid, like, if one
person started laughing,
976
01:00:20,094 --> 01:00:22,314
that I would fall
into that thing
977
01:00:22,357 --> 01:00:25,186
of treating it
like a joke.
978
01:00:25,230 --> 01:00:27,232
But I didn't want
to make fun of myself.
979
01:00:27,275 --> 01:00:29,582
-[audience applauds]
-[Murray] Ladies and gentlemen,
980
01:00:29,626 --> 01:00:33,499
our next performer, she's doing
a brand-new number.
981
01:00:33,542 --> 01:00:35,762
That's right, and if you
don't know burlesque,
982
01:00:35,806 --> 01:00:38,286
know that no one ever says that
or does that.
983
01:00:38,330 --> 01:00:41,028
She's doing
a brand-new number.
984
01:00:41,072 --> 01:00:42,987
[audience cheers]
985
01:00:44,684 --> 01:00:46,294
Ladies and gentlemen,
it's not Monday,
986
01:00:46,338 --> 01:00:48,514
it's not Tuesday,
it's not Wednesday,
987
01:00:48,557 --> 01:00:49,863
it's not Thursday.
988
01:00:49,907 --> 01:00:53,737
Right now it's Gal Friday!
989
01:00:53,780 --> 01:00:55,652
[all cheer]
990
01:00:58,002 --> 01:01:00,700
[synthetic music playing]
991
01:02:02,631 --> 01:02:04,721
[Gal Friday]
When I was up there,
992
01:02:04,764 --> 01:02:07,332
everything just
sort of clicked.
993
01:02:10,030 --> 01:02:11,945
And then it just all
came out of me,
994
01:02:11,989 --> 01:02:14,513
and it was such a great,
honest moment.
995
01:02:32,574 --> 01:02:34,315
And I was throwing
my all into it.
996
01:02:34,359 --> 01:02:36,840
It was that thing of, like,
997
01:02:36,883 --> 01:02:40,844
feeling, like,
sexually repressed.
998
01:02:45,457 --> 01:02:47,851
Until the hood came off.
999
01:02:47,894 --> 01:02:50,201
And then it was just
like an orgasm.
1000
01:03:22,494 --> 01:03:25,018
-[music ends]
-[audience cheers]
1001
01:03:28,587 --> 01:03:31,024
[Murray] Let's hear it for her,
everybody: Gal Friday!
1002
01:03:39,554 --> 01:03:42,601
[Gal Friday]
After the New York
Burlesque Festival,
1003
01:03:42,644 --> 01:03:45,734
I was surprised at how much
it ripped from me.
1004
01:03:45,778 --> 01:03:48,781
Everything I wanted it to be
kind of exploded out.
1005
01:03:50,478 --> 01:03:53,133
You know, like, it was just enough out of my comfort zone,
1006
01:03:53,177 --> 01:03:56,267
but still had aspects
of who I am as a performer.
1007
01:03:58,660 --> 01:04:00,880
Like, I just performed it,
and it felt really good,
1008
01:04:00,924 --> 01:04:05,754
and it felt real,
and it felt from the heart.
1009
01:04:05,798 --> 01:04:08,888
And I think it's a rare thing
to hit on something
1010
01:04:08,932 --> 01:04:12,892
that felt really honest,
but also felt right.
1011
01:04:58,503 --> 01:05:00,331
[inaudible]
1012
01:05:03,769 --> 01:05:08,339
I'm feeling really excited,
and nervous and, you know,
1013
01:05:08,382 --> 01:05:11,559
it's like, the pressure's on,
you know?
1014
01:05:12,430 --> 01:05:13,953
Mom Just Mom?
1015
01:05:13,997 --> 01:05:15,389
[woman]
Who else could it be?
1016
01:05:15,433 --> 01:05:16,869
[Darlinda]
You're on camera.
1017
01:05:16,913 --> 01:05:18,262
I was just getting
interviewed.
1018
01:05:18,305 --> 01:05:19,611
-[woman laughs]
-[Darlinda] Hi.
1019
01:05:19,654 --> 01:05:22,222
My God, you look
beautiful.
1020
01:05:22,266 --> 01:05:24,659
Oh, my God,
she's not joking.
1021
01:05:24,703 --> 01:05:27,358
No, you're... yeah.
1022
01:05:27,401 --> 01:05:31,536
[interviewer]
When did you find out Darlinda
was a burlesque performer?
1023
01:05:31,579 --> 01:05:33,016
Well, at birth.
1024
01:05:33,059 --> 01:05:35,018
[laughs]
1025
01:05:35,061 --> 01:05:37,542
The day she was born,
1026
01:05:37,585 --> 01:05:39,544
I was in the hospital room,
okay?
1027
01:05:39,587 --> 01:05:41,241
And she must have been
three hours old,
1028
01:05:41,285 --> 01:05:42,851
and she had
eye contact.
1029
01:05:42,895 --> 01:05:44,679
And I have witnesses.
1030
01:05:44,723 --> 01:05:47,987
Fifteen people came
to visit me that day.
1031
01:05:48,031 --> 01:05:52,905
And she literally looked around
the room in everybody's eyes,
1032
01:05:52,949 --> 01:05:55,212
and they remember
that day.
1033
01:05:55,255 --> 01:05:57,301
It was very freaky, yes.
1034
01:05:57,344 --> 01:05:59,738
So she had stage presence
at birth.
1035
01:05:59,781 --> 01:06:01,827
[snickers]
1036
01:06:01,870 --> 01:06:04,177
[interviewer]
What are your feelings
about the Schlep Sisters?
1037
01:06:04,221 --> 01:06:05,526
They're funny.
1038
01:06:05,570 --> 01:06:07,354
But they're also--
they're very--
1039
01:06:07,398 --> 01:06:09,182
they're cute in a way.
1040
01:06:09,226 --> 01:06:10,923
They're adorable.
1041
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:12,272
[interviewer]
Do you have any jitters
1042
01:06:12,316 --> 01:06:14,274
about them going on
in competitions?
1043
01:06:14,318 --> 01:06:15,754
They'll win.
1044
01:06:15,797 --> 01:06:17,538
[laughs]
They'll win.
1045
01:06:17,582 --> 01:06:18,887
You heard it here.
1046
01:06:18,931 --> 01:06:20,628
Yeah!
1047
01:06:20,672 --> 01:06:22,195
[indistinct chatter]
1048
01:06:30,682 --> 01:06:33,380
I got this for, like,
$9 from China on eBay.
1049
01:06:33,424 --> 01:06:36,166
And with-- plus shipping,
it was like 14 bucks.
1050
01:06:36,209 --> 01:06:37,297
Is this hot or what?
1051
01:06:37,341 --> 01:06:39,299
[man]
It's amazing.
1052
01:06:39,343 --> 01:06:41,301
[Minnie]
So anyway, you guys--
1053
01:06:41,345 --> 01:06:43,695
you need to take a photo
of me in the hallway.
1054
01:06:44,826 --> 01:06:46,698
How are you feeling?
1055
01:06:46,741 --> 01:06:48,830
[Hinda] Well, obviously,
I'm filled with pride.
1056
01:06:48,874 --> 01:06:50,180
Oh, I want to cry.
1057
01:06:50,223 --> 01:06:53,096
Well, every time
I see you perform,
1058
01:06:53,139 --> 01:06:55,446
it brings me back
to that moment
1059
01:06:55,489 --> 01:06:58,449
when you were figure skating
the very first time
1060
01:06:58,492 --> 01:07:00,103
and you competed,
you were like four years old.
1061
01:07:00,146 --> 01:07:03,106
When I see you out there
bringing joy to everybody
1062
01:07:03,149 --> 01:07:07,110
and joy to yourself,
there is such pride.
1063
01:07:07,153 --> 01:07:09,590
So I want you to know that.
1064
01:07:09,634 --> 01:07:13,464
We're just, like, really, really
grateful and really excited.
1065
01:07:14,639 --> 01:07:17,772
You know, just, like,
being here
1066
01:07:17,816 --> 01:07:20,036
is so much more
1067
01:07:20,079 --> 01:07:22,473
than just getting
the opportunity to compete.
1068
01:07:22,516 --> 01:07:23,778
I just feel like it's, you know,
1069
01:07:23,822 --> 01:07:25,258
this validation
from the universe
1070
01:07:25,302 --> 01:07:29,175
that, like, you know,
I'm healing.
1071
01:07:29,219 --> 01:07:30,959
And the stage
is really slippery,
1072
01:07:31,003 --> 01:07:33,788
so I'm nervous about that!
1073
01:07:33,832 --> 01:07:36,095
-I'm so sorry you told me that.
-Yeah, I know.
1074
01:07:36,139 --> 01:07:37,488
-[laughs]
-You're going to flip.
1075
01:07:37,531 --> 01:07:40,273
-I know.
-Yeah. You're going to flip.
1076
01:07:40,317 --> 01:07:41,622
Thank you for being here.
1077
01:07:41,666 --> 01:07:43,320
Of course.
1078
01:07:58,987 --> 01:08:00,815
[Hazel]
I'm very nervous.
1079
01:08:00,859 --> 01:08:02,426
I'm excited.
1080
01:08:02,469 --> 01:08:05,342
I've performed for an audience, you know,
1081
01:08:05,385 --> 01:08:08,562
for an audience this size
before plenty of times,
1082
01:08:08,606 --> 01:08:12,349
but never an audience
full of my peers.
1083
01:08:14,133 --> 01:08:19,530
Mostly I just want to feel
like I deserve to be up there.
1084
01:08:25,971 --> 01:08:28,234
[Scott] I feel immensely proud
of my wife,
1085
01:08:28,278 --> 01:08:33,544
and sometimes I feel like even
she doesn't fully get
1086
01:08:33,587 --> 01:08:35,850
how proud of her I am,
or what a big deal it is,
1087
01:08:35,894 --> 01:08:38,723
what she's done.
1088
01:08:38,766 --> 01:08:42,727
Five years ago she worked
a day job, Internet support.
1089
01:08:42,770 --> 01:08:46,426
There's nothing wrong with that,
but it's not show business,
1090
01:08:46,470 --> 01:08:49,386
it's not the type
of rarified skill set
1091
01:08:49,429 --> 01:08:51,214
that now she's doing,
1092
01:08:51,257 --> 01:08:55,305
and being acknowledged
by more and more people.
1093
01:08:57,568 --> 01:09:00,136
[rock music playing]
1094
01:09:42,787 --> 01:09:44,919
[audience cheers]
1095
01:09:46,965 --> 01:09:51,012
Please welcome,
from New York City,
1096
01:09:51,056 --> 01:09:53,406
the delicate flower,
1097
01:09:53,450 --> 01:09:55,887
Hazel Honeysuckle.
1098
01:09:55,930 --> 01:09:57,889
[audience cheers]
1099
01:09:59,238 --> 01:10:01,675
[fanfare music playing]
1100
01:10:03,373 --> 01:10:07,290
♪ You've got to have boobs
1101
01:10:07,333 --> 01:10:09,335
♪ If you want to impress
1102
01:10:09,379 --> 01:10:11,511
♪ Tycoons and rubes
1103
01:10:11,555 --> 01:10:13,731
♪ You need boobs
1104
01:10:13,774 --> 01:10:16,429
♪ To fill out a sweater
1105
01:10:16,473 --> 01:10:20,346
♪ You'll get two
But three might be better ♪
1106
01:10:20,390 --> 01:10:23,088
Oh, that's one in the back
for dancing.
1107
01:10:25,569 --> 01:10:27,484
[audience cheers]
1108
01:10:28,659 --> 01:10:31,836
♪ Boobs always give thrills
1109
01:10:31,879 --> 01:10:34,273
♪ Two fried eggs
Will surely grab him ♪
1110
01:10:34,317 --> 01:10:36,057
♪ Like grapefruits will
1111
01:10:36,101 --> 01:10:38,016
Oh, they're both
breakfast foods.
1112
01:10:38,059 --> 01:10:39,496
♪ But listen, folks
1113
01:10:39,539 --> 01:10:42,194
♪ What sets them all
A-whirling ♪
1114
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:47,721
♪ Is a bare pair of tits
With tassels twirling ♪
1115
01:10:47,765 --> 01:10:51,247
♪ You've got to have boobs
1116
01:10:51,290 --> 01:10:55,642
♪ B-O-O-B-S
1117
01:10:55,686 --> 01:10:58,254
Do you think it's easy
to write songs like this?
1118
01:10:58,297 --> 01:11:00,734
Lots of research.
1119
01:11:00,778 --> 01:11:06,523
♪ Just think if all us girls
Had boobies with fluoridation ♪
1120
01:11:06,566 --> 01:11:12,311
♪ We could take the cavities out
Of the whole damn nation ♪
1121
01:11:12,355 --> 01:11:15,967
♪ A nibble a day
Keeps the dentist away ♪
1122
01:11:16,010 --> 01:11:18,796
Even drag queens
love big titties.
1123
01:11:18,839 --> 01:11:21,929
This would go over great
at the goat farm.
1124
01:11:21,973 --> 01:11:26,194
♪ Pasties are a boob's
1125
01:11:26,238 --> 01:11:30,677
♪ Best friend
1126
01:11:30,721 --> 01:11:33,201
[audience cheering]
1127
01:11:36,901 --> 01:11:39,077
[song ends]
1128
01:11:45,953 --> 01:11:47,781
[Sailor Sinclaire]
Friends and lovers,
1129
01:11:47,825 --> 01:11:51,698
keep it going
for Hazel Honeysuckle!
1130
01:11:51,742 --> 01:11:53,874
[Darlinda]
I felt, like, oh, my gosh,
1131
01:11:53,918 --> 01:11:57,356
we're in this show with all
these amazing people and, like--
1132
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:00,054
I just felt like they looked
amazing on that big stage.
1133
01:12:00,098 --> 01:12:04,407
I was like, wow, they're really
talented and I just, you know,
1134
01:12:04,450 --> 01:12:09,063
it's like they're flexible and
I'm like, wow, and here I am.
1135
01:12:09,107 --> 01:12:10,630
[Darlinda]
Picking each other up.
1136
01:12:10,674 --> 01:12:12,066
[Minnie] Yes, throwing
each other in the air.
1137
01:12:12,110 --> 01:12:13,807
[Darlinda]
No matter the outcome,
1138
01:12:13,851 --> 01:12:16,332
I feel like it's such a positive
thing that we're doing.
1139
01:12:16,375 --> 01:12:18,725
I feel like we're both
in such like great places,
1140
01:12:18,769 --> 01:12:20,684
like emotionally
and physically.
1141
01:12:20,727 --> 01:12:24,078
And, like, whatever happens,
I just feel so good about it.
1142
01:12:24,122 --> 01:12:26,254
Like, I feel like we're gonna
fucking rock that stage.
1143
01:12:26,298 --> 01:12:27,952
People are going to be like,
"what the fuck?"
1144
01:12:27,995 --> 01:12:29,823
Yay, we can run.
1145
01:12:29,867 --> 01:12:31,477
-[laughs]
-I don't know.
1146
01:12:31,521 --> 01:12:33,784
We do have
that cartwheel.
1147
01:12:33,827 --> 01:12:35,481
[laughs]
1148
01:12:38,310 --> 01:12:39,572
I feel confident.
1149
01:12:39,616 --> 01:12:41,487
Yeah. Yeah, me too.
1150
01:12:41,531 --> 01:12:43,228
Yeah.
1151
01:12:45,665 --> 01:12:47,841
[Darlinda]
Okay, I can feel the camel toe.
1152
01:12:47,885 --> 01:12:50,366
Yeah, I have
major camel toe.
1153
01:13:01,551 --> 01:13:03,422
[cheers]
1154
01:13:03,466 --> 01:13:05,250
Are you guys ready
for the Tournament of Tease?
1155
01:13:05,293 --> 01:13:08,122
[crowd cheering]
1156
01:13:08,166 --> 01:13:10,647
Our first category,
as always, is...
1157
01:13:10,690 --> 01:13:12,431
-Small Groups.
-[audience cheers]
1158
01:13:12,475 --> 01:13:14,259
[rock music plays]
1159
01:13:37,935 --> 01:13:39,850
[cheers]
1160
01:14:15,538 --> 01:14:17,844
-[music ends]
-[audience cheers]
1161
01:14:21,065 --> 01:14:24,938
But our next performers tonight
are showbiz sisters,
1162
01:14:24,982 --> 01:14:27,027
and have been
for 12 years!
1163
01:14:27,071 --> 01:14:29,203
[cheers and applause]
1164
01:14:30,596 --> 01:14:36,123
So please welcome to the stage,
the Schlep Sisters!
1165
01:14:36,167 --> 01:14:39,083
[cheering]
1166
01:14:39,126 --> 01:14:41,607
♪ Schlep-A-Con
Schlep-A-- Schlep-A-Con ♪
1167
01:14:41,651 --> 01:14:43,827
♪ Schlep-A-Con is
A Schlep Sisters convention ♪
1168
01:14:43,870 --> 01:14:46,003
♪ It's fakata to think what
They do for the attention ♪
1169
01:14:46,046 --> 01:14:48,266
♪ Darlinda spins around like
A gorgeous living dreidel ♪
1170
01:14:48,309 --> 01:14:50,007
♪ While Minnie claps her hands
She's such a shaina maidel ♪
1171
01:14:50,050 --> 01:14:52,575
♪ Everybody say shalom
To the Schlep Sisters ♪
1172
01:14:52,618 --> 01:14:55,534
-♪ Oh, yeah
-♪ Ooh, watch them dance
Just look at them go ♪
1173
01:14:55,578 --> 01:14:57,493
♪ When they start to move
Get ready for a show ♪
1174
01:14:57,536 --> 01:14:59,364
♪ A little nervous?
Don't know what to do? ♪
1175
01:14:59,407 --> 01:15:00,626
♪ Just order some schnapps
Like one or two ♪
1176
01:15:00,670 --> 01:15:02,410
♪ But leave a nice tip
1177
01:15:02,454 --> 01:15:04,151
♪ You don't want to be
A schnorrer ♪
1178
01:15:04,195 --> 01:15:07,067
♪ Oy gevalt
That's a really sexy aura ♪
1179
01:15:07,111 --> 01:15:10,941
♪ Baby, come join
The party now ♪
1180
01:15:10,984 --> 01:15:14,988
♪ Well, I'm so happy
To see you ♪
1181
01:15:15,032 --> 01:15:18,731
♪ Well, you know
It's a good time now ♪
1182
01:15:18,775 --> 01:15:22,169
♪ Singing Hava Nagila
1183
01:15:22,213 --> 01:15:24,911
-♪ I feel warm
-♪ I feel warm
1184
01:15:24,955 --> 01:15:26,913
♪ Feel my tush
1185
01:15:26,957 --> 01:15:30,482
♪ You give me
Such a burning bush ♪
1186
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:34,268
♪ If I can't have you
I'll break down ♪
1187
01:15:34,312 --> 01:15:37,141
♪ Diving on the ground
1188
01:15:37,184 --> 01:15:39,056
♪ I said, oy
1189
01:15:39,099 --> 01:15:41,580
-♪ Baby
-♪ Baby
1190
01:15:41,624 --> 01:15:44,670
♪ "Jewish" that you could
Be me ♪
1191
01:15:44,714 --> 01:15:46,803
♪ I said, oy
1192
01:15:46,846 --> 01:15:49,675
♪ Baby
1193
01:15:49,719 --> 01:15:53,026
♪ I knew Jewish
It said see you there ♪
1194
01:15:53,070 --> 01:15:54,593
♪ I said, oy
1195
01:15:54,637 --> 01:15:57,030
♪ Baby
1196
01:15:57,074 --> 01:16:00,599
♪ Well, I loved you
Shlemiel ♪
1197
01:16:00,643 --> 01:16:02,688
♪ Schlep, Schlep, Schlep
Schlep-A-- Schlep-A-Con ♪
1198
01:16:02,732 --> 01:16:04,124
♪ Oy
1199
01:16:04,168 --> 01:16:06,344
[audience cheers]
1200
01:16:22,882 --> 01:16:24,884
Did you notice,
I wasn't doing my full...?
1201
01:16:24,928 --> 01:16:28,627
I think we just need
to just accept it.
1202
01:16:28,671 --> 01:16:32,239
[emcee] What an
incredible show this was.
1203
01:16:32,283 --> 01:16:34,851
Now whatever happens
from this point on,
1204
01:16:34,894 --> 01:16:36,679
I think you will
all remember
1205
01:16:36,722 --> 01:16:40,421
that this bunch
of human beings
1206
01:16:40,465 --> 01:16:42,989
gave you
an amazing show.
1207
01:16:43,033 --> 01:16:45,209
[cheers and applause]
1208
01:16:49,561 --> 01:16:52,172
And the Best Small Group
goes to...
1209
01:16:55,480 --> 01:16:57,438
[both]
2 to Fly!
1210
01:16:57,482 --> 01:16:59,223
[cheers]
1211
01:17:23,769 --> 01:17:25,771
[Minnie]
So...
1212
01:17:28,252 --> 01:17:32,169
Darlinda and I feel so good
about our performance.
1213
01:17:32,212 --> 01:17:33,518
I'm going to cry.
1214
01:17:33,561 --> 01:17:35,607
Like, we had so much fun
1215
01:17:35,651 --> 01:17:38,697
and we fucking rocked it.
1216
01:17:38,741 --> 01:17:40,090
And...
1217
01:17:42,832 --> 01:17:46,226
like, we got off that stage and
we were so excited and happy,
1218
01:17:46,270 --> 01:17:48,620
and I feel like
1219
01:17:48,664 --> 01:17:51,667
even though we didn't come home with the trophy,
1220
01:17:51,710 --> 01:17:54,234
we totally won.
1221
01:17:54,278 --> 01:17:57,107
We won on so many levels.
1222
01:17:57,150 --> 01:17:59,892
We totally won.
1223
01:17:59,936 --> 01:18:01,677
[inaudible]
1224
01:18:09,554 --> 01:18:10,686
[woman]
Red bean.
1225
01:18:10,729 --> 01:18:13,950
[man]
Red bean, yuzu,
1226
01:18:13,993 --> 01:18:15,168
Nutella.
1227
01:18:15,212 --> 01:18:16,909
-Coconut.
-Coconut.
1228
01:18:16,953 --> 01:18:19,259
[Gal Friday]
I messaged him first
1229
01:18:19,303 --> 01:18:22,523
-on OkCupid.
-[man] Yeah.
1230
01:18:22,567 --> 01:18:24,177
I saw that he liked the movie
Pooty Tang.
1231
01:18:24,221 --> 01:18:25,483
Oh, you likePooty Tang.
1232
01:18:25,526 --> 01:18:27,485
If you liked
The Last Dragon,
1233
01:18:27,528 --> 01:18:29,313
I might pop out a kid
right now.
1234
01:18:29,356 --> 01:18:31,184
And of course I loved
The Last Dragon.
1235
01:18:31,228 --> 01:18:33,230
And he's like, "I saw it in
the theater like three times."
1236
01:18:33,273 --> 01:18:34,797
[both laugh]
1237
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,191
And I was, like, wet as fuck,
so it was on.
1238
01:18:38,235 --> 01:18:40,454
[laughs]
1239
01:18:40,498 --> 01:18:44,676
I said, "I work at night,
I'm a performer."
1240
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:45,982
When I mentioned I did
burlesque, he was like,
1241
01:18:46,025 --> 01:18:47,940
"Oh, that's what
I actually figured."
1242
01:18:47,984 --> 01:18:50,029
Do you know how hard it is
to find a normal picture,
1243
01:18:50,073 --> 01:18:54,642
when all your pictures of you
titties and, like, eyebrows.
1244
01:18:54,686 --> 01:18:56,514
It was so hard for me
to find a picture
1245
01:18:56,557 --> 01:18:59,125
where I didn't have eyebrows,
like, thickly drawn on,
1246
01:18:59,169 --> 01:19:02,738
you know, and four inches
of makeup.
1247
01:19:04,652 --> 01:19:06,742
I was like, oh, I work a lot
at the Slipper Room,
1248
01:19:06,785 --> 01:19:08,700
which he had been to.
1249
01:19:08,744 --> 01:19:11,703
To me I was like, what is
a better way to show someone
1250
01:19:11,747 --> 01:19:15,751
what I do than to be, like,
this is my house.
1251
01:19:15,794 --> 01:19:17,317
[emcee]
It's Friday night.
1252
01:19:17,361 --> 01:19:19,015
It's gals' night.
1253
01:19:19,058 --> 01:19:22,583
Please come up close.
Make good friends with her.
1254
01:19:22,627 --> 01:19:24,324
I went with a friend of mine
to see her perform
1255
01:19:24,368 --> 01:19:25,761
at the Slipper Room.
1256
01:19:28,024 --> 01:19:31,244
And I got butt naked.
Matt puts his dick on my head.
1257
01:19:31,288 --> 01:19:33,464
And then I sat on his face.
[laughs]
1258
01:19:33,507 --> 01:19:35,814
-[Sebastian]
Then we went to IHOP.
-[Gal Friday] Oh, yeah.
1259
01:19:35,858 --> 01:19:38,817
Then we went to IHOP at,
like, 4:00 in the morning.
1260
01:19:39,818 --> 01:19:42,473
It was romance.
1261
01:19:42,516 --> 01:19:44,257
It was definitely like
the most interesting date
1262
01:19:44,301 --> 01:19:46,564
I had had in
a very long time.
1263
01:19:55,312 --> 01:19:57,270
[Gal Friday]
During the first date,
1264
01:19:57,314 --> 01:20:00,056
we had like long periods
of not talking.
1265
01:20:00,099 --> 01:20:02,667
But it didn't feel like I was
searching out for things to say.
1266
01:20:02,710 --> 01:20:05,757
It was just like, oh, now we're
having a moment of silence.
1267
01:20:06,671 --> 01:20:09,065
It's just like, I can be me.
1268
01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:14,853
You know, it's nice that
I don't have to be on.
1269
01:20:16,550 --> 01:20:18,422
I don't always
have to be Gal Friday.
1270
01:20:43,142 --> 01:20:46,102
[interviewer]
Where do you see yourself
as a burlesque performer
1271
01:20:46,145 --> 01:20:50,541
as you continue
on this journey?
1272
01:20:50,584 --> 01:20:54,414
[Hazel]
With burlesque becoming
so much more mainstream,
1273
01:20:54,458 --> 01:20:58,331
you get a lot of shows
of sparkly women in costumes
1274
01:20:58,375 --> 01:21:01,595
and not a lot of substance
behind it.
1275
01:21:01,639 --> 01:21:04,903
And I'm one of those girls
in the sparkly costumes.
1276
01:21:06,252 --> 01:21:08,124
I'm a little
pretty princess.
1277
01:21:08,167 --> 01:21:10,822
And that's what I like to put
onstage, because that's me.
1278
01:21:10,866 --> 01:21:14,391
And the thing is, it has to be
part of your personality,
1279
01:21:14,434 --> 01:21:17,133
what you put onstage.
1280
01:21:17,176 --> 01:21:20,571
When I get to do burlesque,
I can be sexy,
1281
01:21:20,614 --> 01:21:22,181
I can be stupid.
1282
01:21:22,225 --> 01:21:27,665
I can be gorgeous,
or ugly, or funny.
1283
01:21:28,666 --> 01:21:30,494
I can do anything I want
1284
01:21:30,537 --> 01:21:32,278
when I get out
onstage.
1285
01:21:32,322 --> 01:21:35,368
And that's kind of magical.
1286
01:21:38,023 --> 01:21:41,287
[Minnie]
I made the decision
to change my life,
1287
01:21:41,331 --> 01:21:46,989
focus on me, to put myself
and my healing first.
1288
01:21:47,032 --> 01:21:49,817
But I didn't know what to do,
1289
01:21:49,861 --> 01:21:53,604
so I ended up getting this
awesome part-time job.
1290
01:21:53,647 --> 01:21:56,607
Just administration work
for a synagogue.
1291
01:22:02,004 --> 01:22:05,355
[emcee]
Let's get this horah started
1292
01:22:05,398 --> 01:22:08,097
with the Schlep Sisters!
1293
01:22:08,140 --> 01:22:10,186
[cheers and applause]
1294
01:22:12,884 --> 01:22:14,712
[Darlinda]
This partnership,
the Schlep Sisters,
1295
01:22:14,755 --> 01:22:16,932
is like the longest
partnership that I've ever had.
1296
01:22:16,975 --> 01:22:20,283
[Minnie]
To quote Viva La Fever,
burlesque legend,
1297
01:22:20,326 --> 01:22:22,372
"Congratulations on your
first 10 years."
1298
01:22:22,415 --> 01:22:24,852
And that was super inspiring
when she said that.
1299
01:22:24,896 --> 01:22:26,419
We didn't even
look at it that way.
1300
01:22:26,463 --> 01:22:28,378
We were like,
our first 10 years.
1301
01:22:28,421 --> 01:22:30,206
-Yeah.
-Wow.
1302
01:22:56,667 --> 01:22:58,495
[Gal Friday]
Know what I think
we're gonna need?
1303
01:22:58,538 --> 01:23:00,410
-[Sebastian] What?
-Is even more coffee.
1304
01:23:00,453 --> 01:23:01,933
[Sebastian]
More coffee?
1305
01:23:01,977 --> 01:23:03,761
The espresso.
I'm burning through it.
1306
01:23:03,804 --> 01:23:05,632
[Sebastian]
Okay, I will pick some up.
1307
01:23:05,676 --> 01:23:08,070
-Thank you.
-I'm taking the rent also.
1308
01:23:08,113 --> 01:23:09,419
Oh, thanks.
1309
01:23:09,462 --> 01:23:10,724
Love you.
1310
01:23:10,768 --> 01:23:12,639
[Sebastian]
Bye, I love you.
1311
01:23:18,036 --> 01:23:19,777
Tits, check.
1312
01:23:19,820 --> 01:23:21,387
Legs, check.
1313
01:23:22,780 --> 01:23:24,434
Vagina, check.
1314
01:23:38,622 --> 01:23:42,622
[sultry music plays]
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