2/5 Stars.
While your wife may be convinced that this is a great option for "guy's night out," you'll find it a lot cheaper and less painful to just save face and make your way over to a strip club for the real thing. You do the math: Lap dance at the Rhino, $20. Tickets to this show and no lap dance, $54.
Let's all face it, there is a certain level of anticipated cheesiness that makes it completely acceptable for middle-aged women and bachelorette parties to find themselves going buck wild at male revues like Thunder from Down Under and American Storm (they are, after all, wearing wedding veils covered with blinking penises), but the female versions of these revues are usually so bad that they make you feel like you stumbled into an impromptu talent show at a strip club.
Sure the girls are topless and usually attractive, but the costumes are cheap, the choreography is horrible, the singing is often gut-wrenching, the cocktail service is painstakingly slow, and the crowd looks like the type that you would expect to find at this sort of thing. X Burlesque fits the bill on all accounts.
The only plus on the night that I stopped into the show was that the performers took time to meet-and-greet the audience after the show. Nice girls, awful show.
- Jack Colton
While your wife may be convinced that this is a great option for "guy's night out," you'll find it a lot cheaper and less painful to just save face and make your way over to a strip club for the real thing. You do the math: Lap dance at the Rhino, $20. Tickets to this show and no lap dance, $54.
Let's all face it, there is a certain level of anticipated cheesiness that makes it completely acceptable for middle-aged women and bachelorette parties to find themselves going buck wild at male revues like Thunder from Down Under and American Storm (they are, after all, wearing wedding veils covered with blinking penises), but the female versions of these revues are usually so bad that they make you feel like you stumbled into an impromptu talent show at a strip club.
Sure the girls are topless and usually attractive, but the costumes are cheap, the choreography is horrible, the singing is often gut-wrenching, the cocktail service is painstakingly slow, and the crowd looks like the type that you would expect to find at this sort of thing. X Burlesque fits the bill on all accounts.
The only plus on the night that I stopped into the show was that the performers took time to meet-and-greet the audience after the show. Nice girls, awful show.
- Jack Colton
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