Dear Constant Reader,
Vote for the Boston Babydolls!
It’s Mardi Gras, or Carnival, or Shrove Tuesday, as you like. Enjoy the last day before those 40 days of penitence and abstenance until… The Great Burlesque Expo! (or Easter, if you’re like that)
You may be wondering how the Boston Babydolls celebrate Mardi Gras. Or not, but I’m going to tell you anyway.
On Saturday, we performed at the 19th Annual Mardi Gras Ball, hosted by Shaun Wolf Wortis. We love this event. It’s such a treat getting to perform to live jazz & blues in front of hundreds of screaming revelers.
Evie starting things off with a smokin’ striptease to “Purple Wail”. On stage Evie is often sweet, goofy, adorable, or mysterious, but that night she was sexy as all get out.
She was followed by Betty Blaize showing off her bellydance skills to “Caravan”. As sometimes happens with a live band, things got a little interesting, but Betty is a great improvisation dancer and I don’t think the audience had any idea things had not gone completely according to plan.
Brigitte reprised her tap dance from Unlucky in Love to “Let’s Misbehave”, as sung by Alissa Coates. I’m afraid the people in the back of the club were unable to see her fancy footwork, but someone put a microphone down on the stage, so the tapping could be heard.
I closed out the set with a fan dance to “Harlem Nocturne”, one of my favorites. As always, the drummer is the happiest guy in the band, since he sees what is concealed from the rest of you.
The next morning (not too early) we had a cast party for Unlucky in Love, continuing the Mardi Gras theme. Scratch made big batches of jambalaya and red beans & rice and Devora brought homemade pralines. I made beignet dough (I will admit, it was Cafe du Monde mix, but only because I’ve been sick lately & tire easily and Scratch wouldn’t hear of me putting in the extra work to make them from, well, scratch). Then Bobby the Fry Guy cooked up the beignets to crispy perfection with the Fry Gal on powdered sugar duty. And of course a soundtrack of jazz to accompany it all.
Because I am a traditionalist, I believe there will be pancakes tonight.
And how do you celebrate the day?
Oh, The Glamourous Life! 
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