Wanna be in the annual Burlesque Nutcracker?
Posted by Jana Edele | Filed under News
In 2006 the Velvet Kittens premiered our first Burlesque Nutcracker in our holiday show, Un Noel Coquin: A Naughty Christmas. Included in our Nutcracker were singers, dancers, actors, a live jazz band…and an interesting twist on this yearly holiday classic.
Friend, fan, and local playwright Mark-Brian Sonna (who you may know as "Johnny Johnson," our lovable emcee from our Rembrandt shows) was so inspired by our version that he wrote a fictional play about the Velvet Kittens performing a Burlesque Nutcracker. Mark-Brian Sonna's play, The Beulaville Baptist Book Club Presents: A Bur-less-Q Nutcracker, is performed yearly in Dallas, Texas.
This comical play and dancical, has become so popular that last year there were more performances of this Burlesque Nutcracker than Texas Ballet Theater's “Nutcracker”!
Mark is still casting dancers to play the roles of the "Velvet Kitten Burlesque Dancers."
For the role of one of the Velvet Kitten burlesque dancers, Mark is looking for the following: trained dancers with acting abilities.
Some roles require more acting than others (especially for the role of the artistic director of the VK, Jana). The "Kitten" performing the dance role of the Sugar Plum Fairy must have strong classical ballet training.
To schedule a dancer audition, please contact Mark-Brian Sonna of MBS Productions at 214.477.4942.
For more information on his theatre company, visit here.
For reviews and more information on past performances of A Bur-less-Q Nutcracker, visit here.
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A brief synopsis of A Bur-less-Q Nutcracker:
The women of the Beulaville Baptist Book Club are in dire straits financially, and as a last ditch attempt to save their book club they decide to do a fund raiser and hire the Beaumont Ballet to perform Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker". Madge's Piña Colada Casserole unfortunately sickens the entire cast with food poisoning and they are unable to perform. Luckily, there is another dance troop in town. It seems the Velvet Kittens Burlesque Dancers are stuck in Beulaville because their van broke down on their way to New Orleans. Madge has never heard of Burlesque, or as she pronounces it "Bur-less-Q", and in an act of necessity hires the dance troupe to do "The Nutcracker". The end result? The most original, unusual, and comical Nutcracker you have ever seen!