Scintillating burlesque

Pa-Nash, the home of Euro-Soul cuisine in Queens, is hosting an exciting and entertaining evening of scintillating burlesque on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.

Located in Rosedale, the restaurant provides unique and high quality food, exotic drinks, and live entertainment in an upscale but casual environment right in the heart of Queens. Exposé Evening features NYC’s most talented and popular burlesque luminaries: Minnie Tonka, Dame CuchiFrita, Genie Adagio, and hosted by “The Golden Throat of Burlesque,” Broadway Brassy.

Pa-Nash is proud to bring the first burlesque show to Rosedale! It will bring a taste of the glitz and glamour of Manhattan to Queens for an unforgettable night. The doors open at 8:00 p.m. and the show begins at 9:00 p.m.

Broadway Brassy is a bring down the house singer, emcee and creator of Mo Betta Burlesque, Temple of the Virgins, Burlesque at Bedford Hall, as well as her new show every Sunday at The Flatiron Room with her jazz band, The Brass Knuckles. Time Out NY calls her “Inimitable” and Broadway World calls her voice “Red Hot Sass.” Brassy has performed for Brooke Shields and the cast of the Addams Family, Fred Schneider of the B-52’s, Alan Cumming star of stage and screen, and has won several coveted Golden Pastie awards over the last nine years at the New York Burlesque Festival where Burlesque Beat claims her “badassness brought them to their knees.”

International burlesque star Minnie Tonka is known as “The One Woman Riot” and her theatrical, inventive, and flirtatious striptease has been dazzling audiences across the globe since 2004. Minnie is a multiple-time New York Burlesque Festival Golden Pastie Award Winner and was voted #14 in the Top International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2013. Her lusty hilarity has graced the stages of the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, the Toronto, Vancouver, Dallas and Minneapolis Burlesque Festivals, to name a few. Minnie is a sought after burlesque performer and teacher and has toured the world, performing to packed houses in Australia, Italy, England, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and across North America.

Dame Cuchifrita stepped onto the burlesque stage in 2005 where she’s been performing all over the stages of NYC as well as Miss Exotic World in Las Vegas with the Group Brown Girls Burlesque. Dame is a half member of the Cuchi-Crawler Production, a burlesque and cabaret productions which combines various multidisciplinary dance and performing art forms with neo burlesque; whether for theatrical production, corporate, or private events.

Since her debut in 2012, Genie Adagio has become a rising star on the New York City burlesque scene. Originally trained in classical ballet, Genie’s fluid choreography and sharp musicality have become her trademarks. Genie has performed at such recurring productions as Kitty Nights, Nurse Bettie, and Victrola Burlesque, and became a regularly featured dancer with Juke Joint Revue featuring Empire Beats. Her sultry performances have caused others to bill her as “Classic Burlesque’s Quiet Storm.”