Dedicated to putting the BUMP back into the night, Black Cat Burlesque has been raising pulses, the dead and whole lot of hell since 2003. The bad seeds of Modern Burlesque, this scream team mines the depths of their twisted psyches—blending striptease thrills and spookshow chills to push the boundaries of the art form and explore the dark, cobwebbed corners of neo-cabaret!
Conceived in the back of a hearse by veteran burlesque performer, tassel-twirling dynamo (not to mention former mortician), Miss Firecracker and monster man-at-large, illustrator Mister Reusch, BCB is quite possibly the only burlesque troupe to build its ranks in a funeral home . . . Then, during a particularly portentous embalming, our devilicious Miss F met fellow undertaker J. Cannibal. Over blood and formaldehyde, he revealed his nasty little secret: namely, a penchant for voodoo and one Miss Mary Widow—horror movie obsessed choreographer and gore-gore girl extraordinaire! Thus, our creepy coven was nearly complete and what ensued has left a trail of broken hearts and resurrected corpses across the Eastern seaboard. In 2006, we welcomed our newest succubus into the fold . . . the hot & deadly Yellow Fever! Black Cat Burlesque has performed in the 2003-2007 New York Burlesque Festivals, the 2006-2007 Las Vegas Exotic World Festivals, and extensively in Boston, Salem, and NYC.
Specializing in, but not limited to horror, B-movie themed and generally offbeat acts, we have produced the now infamous burlesque horror spookshows at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Spooks A-Poppin' and the Spookalicious Horror Sideshow for the Annual 13 hour Horror Marathon. Along with DJ Vinny, we have also co-produced the sixties themed Zombies A Go-Go, Born to be Wild and the Russ Meyer Tribute nights at the Milky Way Boston. Our J. Cannibal runs his own bi-annual zombie fest, J.Cannibal's Feast of Flesh, and is also one of the masterminds behind the independent publishing and production company, Black Ocean.
