New Zealand’s longest-running burlesque troupe, The Boom Boom Room Burlesque, is presenting its latest show at the Te Raukura ki Kāpiti performing arts centre.
Based in the Manawatū, they have been entertaining audiences across the country for the past 17 years with camp and risque cabaret revues.
The troupe performshour-long cabarets and every show is a new surprise, with themes ranging from the spooky Peek-a-Boo to their glamourous art deco revues, Gin Palace and The Ritz, and the 1950s camp fun of The Leopard Lounge, Bottoms Up! and Teaseorama!
Each boutique revue is performed with four to five performers and there are 20 dancers to call on – all with “delicious” names like Costa DeMillion, Hollie Berry, Man’s Ruin, Tequila!, Lucky Bang-Bang and Cherries Jubilee.
The troupe’s new work, called Let Them Eat Cake, is described as “a Rococo fantasy of frills, feathers and frivolity”.
