Backstage at the Pussycat Lounge

BACKSTAGE AT THE PUSSYCAT LOUNGE, feather boas hang from pot hooks and scotch tape holds the night’s list of acts to the refrigerator door. The dressing room is a cramped kitchen, and in that tight space the night’s performers apply eye shadow and pasties amid the tumult of soup cans and sauté pans. Despite the incongruity of their surroundings, the dancers—World Famous * BOB, * Julie Atlas Muz, Fritzy Collins, Miss Saturn—attend to the rituals of costume preparation with all the intensity of Broadway stars. Here, under the harsh kitchen lights, they rehearse their lines and their movements. What dreams are they pursuing? What brought them here, to this chaotic kitchen on this night?

“Pack all of your dreams into your prettiest dress and follow it to a city where they can come true”

—Burlesque Star, The World Famous * BOB *


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