It was a blast to produce our stylishly depraved avant-vaudeville cabaret: RubyRico's Peepshow Magnifico!
For those of you who missed it, it was a rather sexy romp focusing on the power of Pleasure during bleak economic times, featuring the No Salvation Army Band playing inventive arrangements of classic songs by Cole Porter, Prince, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Queen, Tom Waits and many others, while the provocative Peepshow Dancers (sporting banana skirts, fur underwear and the occasional animal costume) went on a wild choreographic ride – from Bollywood to the bullring, from Russia to Buenos Aires – along with a wide variety of guests and our beloved and lascivious MC in tow.
RubyRico reinvented the legendary Parisian floor shows of the roaring 20’s for the modern age with a dash of absurdism and a heaping helping of debauched good humor.
It all went down in April of 2009 at The Independent at the 501 Studios in East Austin. The Pleasure-for-Pain Tickets we offered free to audience members that were recently laid off were snapped up.
We'll be doing something similar again in the near future and we're available for private events. If you are interested in either of these, please
THE LATEST PRESS, etc.
The Austin American Statesman has a coffee with RubyRico here.
A review in the Daily Texan here.
Austin360 video footage of a rehearsal is below.