Top 10 Reasons to see Sugar Moonlight :: Number 5
Posted by Jana Edele | Filed under News
Our new burlesque show, Sugar Moonlight: A Classic Burlesque Revue, opens Thursday (May 7th). Everyday we're posting a new reason why we think you should brave a Thursday night and see Sugar Moonlight.
Number 5: The History of Burlesque at Hyena's and Sugar's Producers
Once upon a time, in a comedy club in Fort Worth, DFW's most successful and longest running modern burlesque show to date was born. Theatrical producer and owner of Hyena's, Randy Butler, had the foresight to perceive the burlesque revival blowin' this way and hired in Jana Edele to create/choreograph/direct and eventually Daniel Totten to musically direct. After some blood, sweat and beers Hyena's Red Light Burlesque Revue debuted in 2005, and burlesque had officially returned weekly to the Wild West (or you can just call it Fort Worth). Running over a year on Friday and Saturday nights (and yup, even some Thursdays thrown in), the Red Light dancers bumped, grinded, and shimmied to the music of the house band, the Pocket Rockets. Let's take a stroll down memory lane:
Fun Fact! Hyena's downtown Fort Worth club is actually located on what used to be known as Hell's Half Acre. This scandalous area was full of dance halls, saloons, gambling parlors, and bordellos.
Read all about Hell's Half Acre here: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/hph1.html
And here: http://www.fortworthheritagetrails.com/markers/hellshalfacre.html
Totten and Edele also independently produced LCB's vaudevillian musical Cirque de Amore the following year:
We are happy to once again be uniting with Randy and Hyena's, and see this glittering burlesque production team work their spectacular magic in Sugar Moonlight, and pleased to be first to bring a weekly burlesque show to Dallas!
So, reason number 5: The Production Team behind Sugar Moonlight