Burlesque and more at The Rio

[Man Mountain]

I got home from The Rio about an hour ago from watching this:

It wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. I was expecting it to be more along the lines of one of their live burlesque shows. They did have a male "clown" burlesque performer open the show. He was actually quite engaging and put on a fun, quick show. After that, the participants were actually chosen from audience volunteers. And since this was apparently the second time they've done this, the returning winner was there as well to defend her championship. Overall, it was actually a lot of fun.

Luckily, the cute little bumble bee from the poster was there

Tomorrow night's Late Night Movie will be Spice World featuring a "drag shadow cast". In case anyone is interested:

https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/1358-spice-gurls-drag-shadow-cast-spice-world-movie

SPICE GURLS DRAG Shadow Cast & SPICE WORLD MOVIE
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 AT 11:30PM

TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT WHAT YOU REALLY REALLY WANT!

Back from their sold out Tour in Texas The Spice Gurls Drag Show Shadow cast is ready to spice up your life! Get your platform shoes and British accents ready because on Friday June 20th everybody’s favorite 90’s girl group comes alive at the Rio Theatre!

Doors 11:30pm / Show 12 Midnight

Tickets $12 advance/costume or $15 at the door
*This sold out last time so it's recommended to get your tickets in advance >>> www.riotheatretickets.ca <<<

*19+ only with bar service; 2 pieces of ID required.

Join us as we take SPICE WORLD to a whole new level

Remember how exciting it was when this movie first came out? Well now it’s even better because The Rio servers booze!!!

AND THAT’S NOT ALL

In true Rio fashion we will be showing the movie with a LIVE Shadow cast...

That means that before, after and DURING THE MOVIE you will be able to experience the magic of the Spice Girls LIVE as 5 of Vancouver’s favorite drag superstars take the stage as POSH, SPORTY, SCARY, BABY and GINGER.
Spice Gurls: Drag Shadow Cast

STARRING:

JANE SMOKER
JADIS VANITY
LADY JEM
CELESTIAL SEASON
LAURA VANITY

Can YOU guess who's playing who???

Spread the word bitches...
And SPICE UP YOUR FUCKING LIFE

DRAG POWER!

I did go to the Sailor Moon show and was thoroughly entertained by that but I was never all that into the Spice Girls, so I probably won't be going to this one.

 

[Man Mountain]

La Belle Pêche Nue at the Rio Theatre

However, this is on Saturday night and I am very interested in checking this out:

http://www.straight.com/arts/667326/la-belle-peche-nue-rio-theatre

La Belle Pêche Nue at the Rio Theatre
by STAFF on JUN 18, 2014 at 10:03 AM

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, for one night only, leading burlesque performers and producers Melody Mangler and Lola Frost present La Belle Pêche Nue—a nude revue that’s all about the elegant ooh la la.

The Lovely Naked Peach, as it translates in the Anglo-Saxon tongue, is on-stage at the Rio Theatre this Saturday (June 21) and features the pair of artistes plus Roxi D’Lite from beautiful Windsor, Ontario, all of whom have gained top honours at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.

 

[Man Mountain]

Laugh Your Sexy Ass Off!

And this is scheduled for July. Scott Thompson and burlesque performers! Sounds like fun

 

[susi]

i know all these ladies!! so fun!! they are amazingly talented at what they do!!

love susie

 

[Man Mountain]

However, this is on Saturday night and I am very interested in checking this out:

Another poster and a more detailed description

La Belle Pêche Nue - A Nude Revue

On June 21st, Canada's most renowned burlesque performers will doff their pasties and g-strings and appear in all their glory, fully nude, for the most stunning striptease show Vancouver has seen since the Neo Burlesque Revival!

La Belle Pêche Nue presents striptease in an amalgamation of high-art theatrics, sensuality and grace, aiming to challenge conceptions surrounding contemporary burlesque standards of never revealing all.

Inspired and intrigued by the romance of the body in its naked form, producers Lola Frost and Melody Mangler carefully curated a show steeped in such highbrow concepts as dance and theater, then combined it with striptease, commonly viewed as lowbrow - thus creating a powerful potion for beauty, intrigue and excitement!

La Belle Pêche Nue will take burlesque on a romantic waltz for a night, side step the formula we know, and bring in a sense of ferocious strength and dazzling vulnerability to both the audience and the performers.

A sensual striptease sensation not to be missed!

Headlining -
Roxi D'Lite!
Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Burlesque Hall of Fame 2010, Voted "Top 5" Burlesque Performers 3 years running (21st Century Burlesque Magazine) and "20 Hottest Burlesque Stars" in the world. (Aslyum.com)

Staring -
Lola Frost
2nd Runner Up Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Burlesque Hall of Fame 2012

Melody Mangler
Best Debut, Burlesque Hall of Fame 2009

Featuring -
Villainy Loveless
August Wiled
Jungle Cat

with Mistress of Ceremonies -
Cass King

Stage Muscle & Style provided by Brent Ray Fraser and Socratease


Doors at 8pm - Show at 9pm
No outside photography on cameras or phones permitted.
19+ only
Licensed

 

[Man Mountain]

Wicked Ways: A Burlesque Tribute to Disney's Villains

I saw a poster for this last night at The Rio and got very excited but when I was looking around on their site, I couldn't find the accompanying artwork and then forgot to post the info... whoops...

https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/1375-wicked-ways-a-burlesque-tribute-to-disney-s-villains

Wicked Ways: A Burlesque Tribute to Disney's Villains
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 AT 8PM

Doors at 7pm; Show at 8pm
Tickets are $7 in advance/$9 at the door
Please note online sales end 2 hours prior to show time.
Strictly 19+ only; 2 pieces of ID required.
https://riotheatretickets.ca/

Called a "cult sensation" by Vancity Buzz, Geekenders Theatrical Burlesque returns with a cavalcade of shameful, scandalous sinners from your favourite childhood Disney movies.

And don't underestimate the power of... BODY LANGUAGE!

Featuring twelve performances from some Geekenders favourites as well as some of Vancouver's biggest burlesque names, this show features vivacious villainy from:

ROE BUTTS!
SHERRY HYMEN!
TRIXIE HOBBITSES!
TERESA MARIE!
LOTTIE LIBIDO!
DONNA JAZZ!
PRECIOUS METAL!
SCARLET DELIRIUM!
WHATSHERNAME!
RAINBOWGLITZ!
GOLDIE LUXE!
MISS DEE TWENTY!

With stage puppying by

CALVIN COMET!

Hosting by the

MISS KISS! ( https://www.facebook.com/misskissburlesque ) and FRODO TEABAGGINS! (Geekenders, Streets Alive, The Wizard of Bras)

Here's what the media has to say about Geekenders productions:

"...Absolutely hilarious. The Geekenders did a fabulous job with lovingly skewering the source material."
-Livevancouver.ca

"...local impresarios Geekenders, who spare no imagination with their programming. A geek and queer-friendly collective that turns the nerdiest of fantasies into realities..."
-Vancity Buzz on Geekenders

"...Geekenders are taking the ropes and giving opportunities for females to be cast in non-traditional, male-dominated spaces. In doing so, they’re changing the fandom for the better while remaining true to its roots."
-Cecilia Lu in Living Myth Magazine

Like Geekenders on Facebook for more information on their variety shows, dances, theatrical endeavours and burlesque tributes!

This show is likely to sell out! Buy your tickets now!

 

[Summer-Love]

Oh my goodness why am I in Victoria this weekend, I freaking love the Spice Girls, and I love drag just as much. That sounds fantastic! Can someone go for me so I can live vicariously through them??

Burlesque is also fabulous, my old dance studio performed with a burlesque troupe (we didn't strip), and it was one of my most favorite performances ever.

The Rio is so much fun.

 

[Man Mountain]

I saw a poster for this last night at The Rio and got very excited but when I was looking around on their site, I couldn't find the accompanying artwork and then forgot to post the info... whoops...

https://riotheatretickets.ca/events/1375-wicked-ways-a-burlesque-tribute-to-disney-s-villains

Guess where I'll be tonight

 

[Gentle-man]

This was an amazing show, I had the good fortune of being able to take it in with a few sexy friends

Roxi D'Lite was da bomb

Another poster and a more detailed description

 

[Julie Page]

All talented ladies. There is some awesome burlesque in general in this city! Screaming chicken, Geekenders, Bonerattle Talent...always different, always awesome. Riannaconda is one of my FAVES!

 

[Man Mountain]

I'm not going to be able to make it to this one tonight and I'm doubtful that I'll make it tomorrow either but I figured I'd post it for anyone who might be interested.

FRIDAY JULY 18 & SATURDAY JULY 19, 2014
Geekenders with the Rio Theatre present
THE LABYRINTH
A Burlesque Re-Imagining
Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm
July 18 Tickets $22 advance / $25 door
July 19 Tickets $22 advance / $25 door
19+ only with bar service. Please bring 2 pieces of ID.
From the minds that brought you Star Wars: A Nude Hope! It’s a Vegas-style spectacular meeting a beloved pop culture classic to create delicious, naughty alchemy.
Geekenders is back with a brand new grownup reinvention of a classic film about a young girl who finds herself in a fantastical world for a journey of sexual discovery, eighties glam rockers and sequined goblins.
Featuring a cast of twenty-one of Canada’s nerdlesque glitterati, the “cult sensation” (Vancity Buzz) is creating bigger sets, fancier costumes, more elaborate dances and greater thetricality than Vancouver has seen from the troupe before, to take the 1986 Jim Henson classic about growing up, sexuality, and making hard choices and turning all those themes up to eleven.
Geekenders productions have been touted by the Huffington Post, @midnight, Vancity Buzz, Yahoo Movies Uk, The Link, and Living Myth Media. Buy your tickets today, as they’re sure to sell out!
STARRING
Sarah: Ginger Femmecat
Hoggle: Rael Linford
Ludo: Digijon
Didymus: Fiona Ample
+ Jareth, Bitch Sassidy, Trixie Hobbitses and Draco Muff-Boi
With the Goblins:
Lottie Libido
Patrice Bowler
Lyssa Strata
Indigo Montoya
Roe Butts
Julia Sleazer
Jayhew
Sara Shaw
Misty Seamstress
Sherry Hymen
Donna Jazz
Rainbowglitz

To be honest, I was never all that into Labyrinth anyway (despite being a fan of Bowie and all things Henson in those days).

 

[Julie Page]

I'm not going to be able to make it to this one tonight and I'm doubtful that I'll make it tomorrow either but I figured I'd post it for anyone who might be interested.



To be honest, I was never all that into Labyrinth anyway (despite being a fan of Bowie and all things Henson in those days).

There will most likely be a remount, don't worry.
Also, how can you not like labyrinth? IS that even a thing?

 

[Man Mountain]

Full Frontal Nerdity - Wednesday August 6

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to head out to this one. Looks like it'll be fun though

 

[Man Mountain]

I'm not going to be able to make it to this one tonight and I'm doubtful that I'll make it tomorrow either but I figured I'd post it for anyone who might be interested.

To be honest, I was never all that into Labyrinth anyway (despite being a fan of Bowie and all things Henson in those days).

It's back! (Sorry about the late post... Too late for tonight)

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12 & SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Geekenders with the Rio Theatre present

THE LABYRINTH ~ A BURLESQUE RE-IMAGINING

Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm

Tickets $22 advance / $25 door

19+ only with bar service. Please bring 2 pieces of ID.

From the minds that brought you Star Wars: A Nude Hope! Geekenders is back with a brand new grownup reinvention of a classic film about a young girl who finds herself in a fantastical world for a journey of sexual discovery, eighties glam rockers and sequined goblins.

Featuring a cast of seventeen of Canada’s nerdlesque glitterati, the “cult sensation” (Vancity Buzz) is creating bigger sets, fancier costumes, more elaborate dances and greater theatricality than Vancouver has seen from the troupe before, to take the 1986 Jim Henson classic about growing up, sexuality, and making hard choices and turning all those themes up to eleven.

Geekenders productions have been touted by the Huffington Post, @midnight, The Vancouver Courier, Vancity Buzz, Yahoo Movies Uk, The Link, and Living Myth Media. Buy your tickets today, as they’re sure to sell out!

 

[Man Mountain]

Listen up, you primitive screwheads! Evil Dead Trilogy!!! Sept. 19th!

Oh yeah... they also still show movies sometimes... I guess this could constitue "and more"

 

[Man Mountain]

Star Wars Burlesque: Reveal of the Jedi

I missed "A Nude Hope" but did make an effort to catch "The Empire Strips Back". I am planning on seeing this if I can make it.

 

[Man Mountain]

Horror Drag Show

I had a pretty good time at the Bloody Betty Tales From the Strip show at the 5 earlier this year, so I am intrigued by this... I'm not sure if I'm intrigued enough to actually go... but maybe...

 

[Man Mountain]

I have yet to see a hot man with a beard in drag so I may go to this one.

So... you going...?

 

[Man Mountain]

Battle Royale - Friday at Midnight

I have not yet seen this one but I've heard a lot of good things about it. I noticed that it has recently been added to NetFlix and I have added it to "My Que / My List" so I'll probably just watch this one on NetFlix. But I can imagine that a Midnight show of this might be interesting...

Battle Royale
Join us at the Rio on Friday, November 14 for a late night screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s modern cult-classic BATTLE ROYALE, starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, and Tarô Yamamoto.

Friday November 14
Doors 11:30pm /Movie 11:59pm
Tickets $6 advance (or costume) / $8 door
19+ only; 2 pieces of ID required.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

The summary from the following youtube page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOCEF4n_zs

At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployemnt is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act. Overseen by a former teacher, Kitano ('Beat' Takeshi), and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobediance. Likened to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by many critics, this explosive film shocked a nation with its violent portrayal of a society in ruins.

 

[Man Mountain]

Burlesque Long Form - November 22

Burlesque Long Form

Saturday November 22nd Doors 8:00 PM / Show 9:00PM
Tickets $15 advance / $20 door
19+ only; 2 pieces of ID required for bar service.

Celebrating its third anniversary, six of Vancouver’s most celebrated Burlesque performers return to the Rio Stage on November 22nd Burlesque Long Form.

An artistic challenge set by producer and performer April O’Peel, local luminaries will have one chance only to perform a full ten minute act!!

Will the performers be able to please, tease and captivate their audience for a full ten minutes? Expect outlandish props, projections, and over the top narratives as a stunning variety of unique and spectacular Burlesque performers push the boundaries in Burlesque Long Form!

Starring:

APRIL O’PEEL

BURGUNDY BRIXX

CHERRY ON TOP

MELODY MANGLER

VERONICA VEX

VORACIOUS V

Hosted by VIOLET FEMME & TYLER JAMES NICOL