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HuffleBuff! – Pt2 — a BURLESQUE Tribute to everyone’s favorite Wizard!

July 21, 2011 at 1:16 am (Burlesque) (Bowery Poetry Club, Burlesque, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, NYC Pin Up Club, Pin up, striptease, The Group that Shall Not be Named)

Welcome to a world of fantasy and adventure. Where danger and excitement hides around every corner and dreams are made real. Prepare to enter a realm of magic and mystery – and boobies!

Last night was the NY Pin Up Club’s HufffleBuff! -Pt2– A Burlesque Tribute to everyone’s favorite wizard! at the Bowery Poetry Club. The show was a joint effort between the Pin Up Club and The Group that Shall Not be Named, NYC and the Tri-State area’s premier Harry Potter fan group, as a tribute to the final Harry Potter movie. Sadly i did not have a chance to attend the first tribute show back when The Deathly Hallows part 1 came out. The NY Pin Up Club hosts a monthly Burlesque show/ Pin Up photography shoot at the Bowery Poetry Club, for $10 a head, but last night being a special production, the price was raised to $15 As mentioned above the show is also a pin up photography shoot and photography is allowed and encouraged. As soon at the first dancer steps out, the shutters go flying and don’t stop until the end of the show.

For those of you who have never been, The Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery between Bleecker and E. Houston. The place has a very comfortable and stylish vibe, with vintage knickknacks and portraits adorning the walls and dim lighting to set the mood. In the back is a bar and stage, where they host a variety of events. You can find a schedule of their events on their website.

The event opened with the night’s host, Brandon Herman, the organizer of the NY Pin Up Club and producer of the show. He stepped out dressed as the infamous boy wizard himself and entertained the audience with his anecdotes about The Deathly Hallows part 2, his love of Burlesque dancers stories of past shows. He kept the crowd entertained between performances with his dry wit and banter with the night’s stage kitten, Lily Stitches.

Act 1

The first performance for act 1 was the lovely Miss Hazel Honeysuckle. Miss Honeysuckle strutted out onto stage dressed as witch; hat, cape and all. She began stripteasing to a techno remix of the Harry Potter theme, working up the crowd with her cape twirls. Half way through her act the music changed from techno to old school burlesque music, and Honeysuckle underwent her own transformation from a young witch into a sexy black cat. In a set of cat ears and whiskers (and little else) she slunk around stage, toying with a ball of yarn and eliciting cat calls galore from the audience.Sadly Hazel had to leave after her first performance.

The second dancer of the evening was the kinky Miss Anja Keister. She strode out into the spotlight dressed as the series’ most proper villain; Professor Umbridge. She started her act by mimicking a soundbite from the movie and nailed the character completely. Miss Keister primly stalked the stage to Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer”, scolding the audience, sipping her tea and shedding her pink coat. She had the audience in an uproar when she seductively slid on a pair of thigh high leather boots and turned a cat o’ nine tails on herself. Self-flagulation never looked so good.

The third performer was the always seductive Miss Dangrrr Doll. She burst onto stage as a leather bound kitten, tail included, grinding to Offspring’s “Come Out and Play”. Miss Doll strolled and crawled across the stage, oozing sexuality with every movement and tossing her leather clothes freely about the stage. One of the highlights of the evening came when, after her act, someone noticed that her bra was hanging off a stage light on the ceiling and the poor stage kitten was forced to climb a ten foot ladder to fetch it. Watching Dangrrr Doll come out and fruitlessly try to jump and grab it was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen. It didn’t hurt that she did it in a g-string.

The final performance of act 1 was the adorable Miss Minnie d’Moocha. She ran onto stage in tears as a still living Moaning Myrtle, trailing a length of toilet paper. She hilariously picks up the pieces to her shattered teenage life, set to Katy Perry’s “Firework”, as she pulls off a “kick me” sign and pulls the stuffing out of her bra. She reminded me a lot of Molly Shannon doing her Superstar bit. Miss d’Moocha heroically dances around the stage until things take a turn for the worse, in the form of a sock puppet basilisk. Myrtle meets her fate when she stares into its steely button eyes and dies on stage to a round of applause.

After this act there was a short intermission followed by a Harry Potter trivia game. The Price is Right theme kicked up and three audience members were selected to go on stage and pit their knowledge of all things Potter against one another. Brandon Herman, with Lily Stitches keeping score, quizzed the contestants with the most difficult questions he could come up. After ten or so questions the contestant from the Harry Potter fan club (I know. Shocker.) was the clear victor and walked away with a Lego Harry Potter set. The second place winner also received a Lego Harry Potter and the third place winner got a free drink.

Act 2

The first performer of the act was Anja Keister. She flitted onto stage just as a sound bite of Harry calls out “Expecto Patronum”, dressed as his Patronus, the stag. She was decked from antler to toe in white scarves and slowly stripped to the Harry Potter piano score. Miss Keister ended her act by twirling her scarves around her body like a dervish and throwing them carefree around her self.

The next performer was Mini d’Moocha. She crept into the spotlight as arguably the most popular villainess of the Potter series; Bellatrix Lestrange. She sneered and cast spells at the audience as she danced to Voltaire’s “When Your Evil”, shedding her shawls and tight laced corset, looking all the world like an evil gypsy woman. Even as she stripped, she was fully in character, and even used her wand to activate a dark mark tattoo on her forearm.

The final act of the night was Dangrrr Doll. She slowly came onto stage as a huge black bird, wearing a set of steampunk goggles, a skirt made out of scrolls and black feathers adorning her body. Dancing to modern music, she used her black feather fans expertly, weaving them through the air and shedding her feathers throughout the routine. By the end of her routine the stage was littered with feathers but luckily, as I’m sure Miss Lily Stitches would agree, none of them were stuck in the lights.

After the Burlesque show was over the ladies were called back onto stage for the photo shoot section. If any of you are interested in pin up photography this is a good place to start. Also the NY Pin Up Club offers shoots you can attend. You can find the information on there website.

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