L’Edition Française Triples the Burlesque Heat at the Triple Door [Photo Gallery]

UPDATE: L’Edition Française is back at the Triple Door this weekend, Thursday May 26 through Saturday May 28. They say they’ve added some new things, so even if you caught the “old” show, you might want to pop in again. Honestly, if you saw the old show, you wanted to pop in again anyway. This burlesque show is eye-popping for its artistry and production value, besides the usual reasons.

Here’s my little thumbnail of the previous encounter:

It was a one-night-only show, so I brought my camera in case you didn’t make it. “L’Edition Française,” for Bastille Day at the Triple Door, presented new work by Lily Verlaine (The Burlesque Nutcracker), Kitten LaRue (The Atomic Bombshells), and Olivier Wevers (Whim W’Him).

The three choreographers dug into the catalogues of artists such as Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, France Gall, Brigitte Bardot, and others, to create an evening of burlesque that ranged in tone from the campy music video, to something like “forgotten” orgy scenes from An American in Paris, to sweaty, oiled-up erotica. That, in conjunction with the Triple Door barman conjuring up a Fernet Branca Negroni (out with the Campari, in with the Fernet!) made for a satisfactorily full-figured evening.