Step right up, folks!

...and see loooooong awaited footage of Honey B. Combe's "Little Egypt". You can even see the amazing vintage cleopatra collar I recently gained ownership off!

BROADZILLA! (2.25.11) - "Little Egypt" by Honey B Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

the boogieman! and my gold sequined granny panties.

This post is rather short, as I'm trying to get a million things done at work. I just received new footage from our buddies over at Vaudezilla of Honey B. Combe's newest act, the Boogieman, as performed at Broadzilla, the Burlesque Beast.

We made some sweet new costumes for this act, including my ridiculously gold hand sequined & lamee granny panties, had the track personally remixed by our dj buddies over in Ann Arbor, and Lindsey even got to bust her mustache out again.

Enjoy!

xoxo

BROADZILLA! (1.28.11) - "Boogieman" by Honey B Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

Gimme Some Skin.

The day after Thanksgiving, I was flying solo so to speak, as Lindsey was back home visiting family and enjoying turkey and sides galore for the holiday. It was time for our monthly romp with our buddies over at Vaudezilla for "Broadzilla! The Burlesque Beast", and I decided to do the show this time around solo. There are many times when I do acts and events on my own, as solely Sugar Cane Jane, but it is very rare to have any of those occasions captured in pictures or video. I feel like a lucky gal to finally have some videography of a brand new act I unveiled at the post-Thanksgiving show. Though, I can tell from watching this video that there's some crude areas that I need to tweak and work on in this act(including syncing my clapping with the sounds of the Andrews Sisters), I think considering that at this particular venue I ALWAYS dance with my partner, I did quite alright shakin' it all by my lonesome.

In the end, practice makes perfect, right?

BROADZILLA! (11.26.10) - "Gimme Some Skin, My Friend" by Sugar Cane Jane from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

xoxo.

Not once, but twice.

Well, yeeehaaaaaw! Our buddies over at Vaudezilla Productions were kind enough to send some sweet, sweet footage over our way of two recent Honey B. Combe performances, both being different renditions of our act, "All aboard the Chattanooga Choo Choo". I'm elated to share them both, as I feel Dolly Dagger(Lindsey) and I have come quite a longggg way since first voyaging into the complex world of burlesque and all that it encompasses.

The first video reel is from our Halloween show at Exit on October 29th. For this show, we decided to channel our inner zombied-out, awakened-from-the-dead Andrews Sisters. Mission accomplished.



And here's the reel for you to enjoy:

BROADZILLA! (10.29.10) - "All Aboard the Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Honey B Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

And just a short time later, we were invited to perform at the Lincoln Fair, monthly Burlesque Expostion, hosted by Vaudezilla at the Lincoln Tap Room for Lincoln Tap Room's 20th Anniversary par-tayyyyyyyyy.



Here's the reel from that expostion:

Lincoln Fair (11.20.10) - "All Aboard the Chattanooga Choo-Choo" by Honey B Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

this fall/winter will have far many more things to come, but for now, I leave you with these goodies.

xoxo,
erin
and my slightly altered ego, Sugar Cane Jane

Get down on the B.T. Express

Here's some footage I just scored from the producers over at Vaudezilla Productions, of Honey B. Combe performing "Peace Pipe" by B.T. Express at the Exit this past August in Chicago. yay!

BROADZILLA! (8.27.10) - "Peace Pipe" by Honey B. Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

and as always, thanks to the awesome Vaudezilla team for providing footage! (so at least we can see how goofy we are on stage)

Where's my whistle? Where's my luggage? And some tap shoes??

The proceeding video is footage of Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers performing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra to the classic, Chattanooga Choo Choo. This is one of my favorite musical selections, and though I love The Andrews Sisters version of this song, I just absolutely adore Dorothy Danridge's performance. As we gradually make our way into fall this year, Honey B. Combe has been on the prowl for new act inspiration, and boy, oh boy, have we found it in this segment! Lindsey and I are doing a wardrobe and performance overhaul for the upcoming season, and we're completely stoked to include Honey B. Combe's very special version of Chattanooga Choo Choo to our spankin' new repetoire.



We also recently had another fantastic show with our friends over at Vaudezilla this past month, winding down August with a totally revised "Peace Pipe" performance in Broadzilla! the Burlesque Beast at Exit Chicago. That show was filmed and photographed, and though I'm still awaiting footage and such, which are all soon to come, I can't wait to visually share the experience!

I have much more catching up to do, but we'll have to save other goodies for later.

xoxo,
erin

pussycats galore

I finally found full length footage of Honey B. Combe! yay! This video is our performance to the Pussycat Song, by Connie Vannett, at Exit, Chicago, this past June. We're still pretty new to the burlesque world, so we have a few minor tweaks to work out with all of our acts, but i hope you enjoy!

BROADZILLA! (6.25.10) - "Pussycat Song" by Honey B Combe from Vaudezilla Productions on Vimeo.

It's been such a pleasure to work with the Red Hot Annie & the Vaudezilla team, and I can't wait to share more of our adventures with them!

xoxo,
erin

ohhhh, the things that make me happy!

are the following, for today, at least:

the dead milkmen. (yesssssssssss!)


dinah washington. (oh, that voice!)


bea arthur (r.i.p., my queen!) on the pamela anderson roast (sooooo good!)


planning two new burlesque shows with my partner in fringed and sequined crime, lindsey. we'll be revamping our Peace Pipe act for the lovely ladies over at Vaudezilla for Broadzilla at the Exit, in Chicago, at the end of this August. And we're additionally working on a brand spankin' new act to Jimmy Cliff's "You can get it if you really want" off of the "The Harder They Come album", for Eve's Parlor's Burlesque-a-palooza, in honor of this year's upcoming Lollapalooza, also in August. Each performer for that show has to create an act based on a song by one of the musical artists performing at this year's lollapalooza, and Jimmy was our pick, so this should be quite fun. phewwww, i feel a workout coming...


and this lovely late 1940s/early 50s cable knit cropped sweater i had the pleasure of modeling for my lovely friend niki @ bombshellshocked vintage. fab!u!lous!


(don't mind the fuzz on my bum, the angora sweater she photographed me in previous to this totally shed all over my hot pants, wah wah.)

ahhhh, yes.

Broadzilla attacks!

Tonight, Honey B. Combe will have a very magical performance for all patrons attending Broadzilla Burlesque at Exit (in Chicago, of course)! We've combined our vintage seller forces to pull together one hell of a wardrobe for this special act, because as far as we're concerned, there is NEVER too much cheetah and/or leopard print! And that fits rightttttt into our pussycat performance.

There's over twenty performers gracing the stage of this very special evening of tassles, fringe and glitter (among other things), so we've all been split into two sets.

Honey B. Combe plans to stand and DELIVER during the first set tonight, so make sure to get there by 10:30pm sharp, to catch an eyeful, hee hee.

xoxo.