Checked out a new show at the Can Can, their take on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. They mix in a little bollywood, just for the quirk. I went to a 7:30 show this time. There wasn’t a bachlorette party, so things in the crowd were a little more sedate. Having a plot to follow made the show a little more narrative than last time. The cast size was the same, but they spent more time all on stage, having 3 Frankfurters at one point, and 4 or 5 pairs of Brad and Janet’s. During breaks, they would show a bollywood film in the background, it started with some sort of dream sequence involving tiki statues with flashing lights, goes thru an axe murder, and ends in a beach blanket bingo style number. Nobody spins from the ceiling like in Flux, but it was still a pretty entertaining show. At the 7:30 show, the VIP tix don’t come with alcohol, but do come with a 3 course meal. The soup was a savory vegetable concoction of some sort, I liked it. Got the broccoli salad, also tasty, with flavor completely devoid of my mortal enemy, vinegar. OK, not mortal enemy, I just don’t like it. =p The entree of my choice was the mac and cheese, this time if you picked mac and cheese, you didn’t get to pick from the three types, it was just the three cheese. Tasty as well, but not the chipotle cheddar I love so much. Can’t have everything I suppose.
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Rocky Goes to Bollywood
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Tags: cabaret, restaurantreview, review, seattle
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Flux @ Can Can
Monday, July 26th, 2010Friday night, went and saw the show FLUX at the Can Can, by the Castaways.
Chicken chipotle cheddar mac n cheese = tasty. Could have done with more chicken, but there was plenty of pasta and plenty of sauce, and it was nicely spiced. The little bottle of champagne that came with my ticket was a brand I don’t recognize, and I found it had a little too much bitterness for my tastes, but I rarely drink champagne…sorry, bubbly wines from non-champagne-regions, so maybe it was just fine.
Since I got there before they were ready to start seating, I hung out in the bar for a little bit first. It’s a very nice piece of carved wood that looks like it belongs in some 300 year old european bar, not underneath the market in Seattle. They have a large collection of absinthe.
The actual show.
1/4 movements – starts with 4 colored columns of zentai fabric, ends with a 4 person crab walk sort of thing
2/4 – dancing chipmunk, racoon, spaceman and karate woman to anime-techno. spaceman strips down to a g-string butt shot. girls come back as light and dark business sexy, finish is one guy up top of a massive purple mountain that spins around, with legs and arms coming out, chainmail coif
3/4 – starts with ‘host’ vlad and the bachlorette, pulls in 3 guys from audience to dance with. Next comes a big spinning-from-the-ceiling bit, with a sparkly square and two of the performers hanging off it. Ends with the group taking turns dancing in the front, on a turntable to one side, or on the mini-trampoline on the other side of the stage.
4/4 – tamest of the sets, ends with them back in the same place the 4 pillars were, exposing little letter-plates on their butts that spelt out flux. I ended up not getting a chance to write down my notes from this part, so have little to say about it, d’oh.
Will have to check out another of their shows some day, and take my own camera, since it appears they are OK with photography. I’d rate the exposure level at pg-13. It’s more suggestive than explicit, which seems right for a burlesque show.
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