QUOTES:
"The Peepshow Cabaret is Amazing...High Energy, Laugh out Loud Funny...Entertainment at it's best!"
- Ryan Tunney/Next Media Group
"The Peepshow Cabaret was one of the best live performance groups I've seen in a longtime! They are highly entertaining with impeccable choreography! - Rachel Riot/ Burlesque Beauty & Heavy Rebel Weekender Festival Organizer for The Wiggle Room
"This show will change your life! If you don't go see the Peepshow Cabaret you will probably die alone and sad..."
- Oprah
(not Oprah Winfrey but some chick we met in downtown Winston Salem named Oprah who told us that the birds were trying to conspire against her ...then she picked her nose and ran away screaming..)
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What’s a Hot List without a little action? Wilmington has its fair share thanks to the folks behind Peepshow Cabaret! The buzz around town has been nonstop after these ladies and gents take to the stage, offering aerial dancers, comedy acts (with dancing gorillas), a talking Venus Fly Trap, a jazz-singing sensation and “a host that will keep you on your toes,” according to founder Erin Hawley.
Hawley isn’t new to the business of staying busy. In fact, the entrepreneur has her hands in one of many things, from a dance business (A Whole Lotta Pole) to a match-making venture (The Mating Game). The Peepshow Cabaret came to be from Hawley’s love of entertaining people. “I wanted to direct, produce, choreograph, and perform in a show that was all me,” she says. She has put on 20 shows in the last year and a half alone.
“We were pulling in over 200 people per show,” she says, “... [and] after the shows, we would have people come up to us and say, ‘That was not at all what I expected.’”
Their compliments came as no surprise, as Hawley knew they were anticipating “a more salacious, over-sexed show.” The outcome was different; in fact, only one “boobie tassler,” as Hawley refers, performs currently and in good taste. “Everyone else is fully clothed,” she reveals, “probably wearing more clothes than the typical downtown girl on a Saturday night.”
The Peepshow Cabaret performs at the Soapbox and has shared the stage with national performers from other cabaret acts, such as Go-Go Amy and Bettina May from Pretty Things Peep Show. The Peepshow Cabaret stays local as much as possible, though they did just return from a gig in Winston Salem last weekend.
“Our next local show is in September,” she clarifies, “[It will be a] ‘Through the Decades—Acts from the 1920’s to 2010’ show.”
Having been choreographing locally for seven years, Hawley always felt that doing a peepshow was her calling. “Every performance I ever did, I would try to throw some old-school cabaret into the mix to the chagrin of the director,” she tells.
Today, she constructs the performance with a team of helpers, including Rosalinda Bathon of Rockin Roller Salon, who specializes in designing vintage hairstyles, as well as the Peepshow Cabaret manager Ellie Gant, set and costume designer Buc Nekkid, among her performers.
Hawley promises to impress and change any falsified notions someone might have of her latest business. “It’s the people who haven’t seen the show that have such a waivered opinion,” she notes. “They are assuming a lot by the name ‘peepshow.’ If I could go back, maybe I would have named it ‘Funny Dancing Acting Circus Comedy Show!’ But I can’t—and I don’t want to, either.” - Shea Carver
Encore Magazine Wilmington NC
july 7th- 13th, 2010
Encore Magazine - Wilmington, NC
February 2010
