Tag: Nutcracker Rouge

Nutcracker Rouge: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Shows Like These

by DB Frick - 0

A club remix of the Nutcracker theme that melts, like chocolate candy on the tongue, into a sultry live rendition of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"? That's entertainment, baby. My love told me that I’m falling asleep during performances recently. One show last week she clocked me falling asleep 12 times in one hour. So from now on I’ll be rating productions by “Nods” or how many times I “Nod Off”.  Let us begin. It's the first of many holiday gifts Company XIV offers up in Nutcracker Rouge, the Brooklyn burlesque troupe's flagship show now in its 15th year. A

NUTCRACKER ROUGE at Théâtre XIV

by Jacquelyn Claire - 0

NUTCRACKER ROUGE is a scopophiliac's nirvana. The deep pleasure of "looking" is sated by being able to gaze unbidden into the erotic, sensual and sexy crack in the universe opened by this prurient production. We are not merely peeping through the keyhole into the secret wonders beyond, but are invited in to sit right up close to the cheeky exuberance. We are inside award-winning director/choreographer Austin McCormick's robust, decadent, gourmet, fantasy land of sexual awakening.  He has reimagined The Nutcracker as a titillating, seductive burlesque that takes the character of young "Marie Stahlbaum" on an unforgettable self actualizing journey -

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