• Photo by Mayu Kanamori
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Paul Phillipson
  • Photo by Albert Comper

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Returned by popular demand!!
Sydney Opera House Studio
January 2009
Hot on the heels of a world tour, the smash hit of festivals everywhere returns to Sydney. The Burlesque Hour… She’s Back! the legendary, indefinable, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young salon that has set the critics raving and 30,000 audience members around the world in raptures, returns to after it’s sell-out season in the The Famous Spiegeltent – Gourgeous! program.
The Italians gave it 10 standing ovations. Edinburgh gave it 5 stars. It stormed Slovenia’s major cultural centre, and sold three times the tickets available in Rijeka. Tokyo hipsters crowded the Yokohama waterfront while New Zealanders cheered and gasped.
Starring internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre, Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese butoh dancer and shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare; circus and burlesque star Azaria Universe, elegant iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous and fabled Strawberry Act, and luminous guest artistes.
Part circus and sideshow, showgirl and show-stopper, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music hall, gothic spectacle and mayhem.
In 2008, Sydney snatched up every last ticket. Now they are back with a revved up mix of wild new acts, and legendary favourites. Don’t miss out…your table awaits.
THE STUDIO, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE