Finucane & Smith present TheBurlesque Hour…Legends Thursday 25 June to Sunday 2 August fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne Thursday to Sunday 7pm, Friday & Saturday 7pm & 9.30pm shows Bookings: (03) 9662 9966 or www.fortyfivedownstairs.com MARTINEZ 24 June to 5 July CAPSIS 9-19 July LAMOND 23 July to 2 August “…from the sublime to the subversive, the hot to the hilarious…outrageous and unforgettable” The Times, London The legendary, indefinable, genre-busting, burlesque-eats-its-young salon that has had critics raving and festival audiences around the world in raptures, comes home to Melbourne, in a last stop before Shanghai, with Burlesque Hour … LEGENDS. From every facet of the showgirl spectrum, the Burlesque Hour creates LEGENDS. From London cult cabaret legend, star of the Olivier Award winning La Clique, purveyor of the internationally infamous hanky strip, performer at Salman Rushdie’s stag night, and fresh from a six month run at London’s Hippodrome, Ursula Martinez, to three time Helpmann and Green Room award winner, Australia’s darkest singing angel, the man The Scotsman describes as being ‘in possession of a voice that sounds like an act of God’, Paul Capsis, to Miss Toni Lamond the legend of Australian variety, Order of Australia and Key to the City of Melbourne recipient, and declared by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘The Ultimate Showgirl’, The Burlesque Hour mixes it up with the very, very best stars in the stratosphere. Add to that, internationally acclaimed Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese electric shock butoh dancer Yumi Umiumare; smouldering circus siren Azaria Universe; the elegant iconoclast Maude Davey, and the growing kitten-exploitation legend of wild dancers, Kitten K.O. and you have BURLESQUE HOUR … LEGENDS. Parts circus and sideshow, showgirl and show-stopper, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music hall, gothic spectacle and mayhem, in a crash curve carnival of wild new acts and legendary favourites.