Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Courtesy of Behind the Burly Q
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Thursday July 22, 2010 (7:30pm)
Friday July 23, 2010 (7:30pm)
Saturday July 24, 2010 (7:30pm)
Sunday July 25, 2010 (4 & 6pm)
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- Price
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$8
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“Tiny Kline was a burlesque performer who segued into a career as an aerialist for the Ringling Brothers circus. Her signature iron jaw act involved zipping down a cable suspended only by her teeth. In 1958, Walt Disney discovered her, and at the age of 70, the 4'10" Hungarian became the first high-wire Tinker Bell at Disneyland, gliding between the Matterhorn and the Sleeping Beauty Castle to signal the start of the fireworks display. Kline's story is one of the colorful anecdotes recounted in Leslie Zemeckis' Behind the Burly Q. The documentary is a peep inside burlesque's golden era, as remembered by legendary stripteasers like Dixie "the Marilyn Monroe of burlesque" Evans and Tempest Storm (who herself did a little private bump and grind with both Elvis and JFK).”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts says:
Burlesque and vaudeville acts were America's most popular form of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century — until cinema drove them from the mainstream. To add insult to injury, the art of burlesque became vilified and misunderstood, and was largely left out of our cultural history. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its Golden Age through the women (and men) who lived it, Behind the Burly Q reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance.
