Every Friday night, the Kiss Kiss Cabaret takes audiences back to the vaudeville era. The Flattery Brothers host, and the “coquettes” perform their sexy solo acts on a stage draped with a shiny red curtain. The Claptrap Family Orchestra, accordion and all, provides the soundtrack.
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“It’s really important that our show be a mix of the cabaret,” says Kiss Kiss Cabaret producer and director Jenn Kincaid. The comedians bring the funny; the coquettes bring the sexy. Magic and juggling are also part of the show.
The coquettes do both solo acts and group numbers. These dancers have “a really awesome bag of tricks,” Kincaid says, so she and the rest of the production crew give them a lot of freedom to develop new acts for each show. Case in point: a new six-minute tango number in which a coquette escapes from a straitjacket only to find herself locked up in chains.
