burlesque , also: burlesk

She recently completed work on her debut film role in Burlesque.

As a young man, he appeared in various burlesques.

But even dirty burlesques are not made out nothing.

Later that year, she made her feature film debut in the musical Burlesque (2010).

Though these were at heart burlesques, Leon insisted that everything was quite proper.

He often wrote short tales, songs, children's stories, and occasional burlesques.

Her first dramatic role was in a London production of "Burlesque."

By 1836 these classical burlesques had become so popular that other writers were copying them.

The work was the last of five such burlesques that Gilbert wrote in the late 1860s.

- 7 days ago Burlesque was not a bomb.

It was also chosen as the first single for Empire Burlesque.

Gilbert's dramatic writing during this time was evolving from his early musical burlesques.

Several of the other male roles were played by women, as was common in burlesques of the day.

The two met on the set of "Burlesque" and began dating in November 2010.

Burlesque is a homage to the golden age of the great American book-musical.

At the same period, Aguilera was working on her film project, Burlesque.

Some of them, such as camels are natural burlesques, but they cannot be burlesqued further.

He soon became popular for his burlesques of popular plays and local celebrities.

"Burlesque wouldn't work, and fan dancing was just one of the things she did.

Burlesque was also common in Havana before 1960.

They have also toured across Canada with their musical Burlesque.

As with many of the Gaiety burlesques, the title is a pun.

The town was famous for being the home of the rowdy Hudson Burlesque.

Many of these kinds of burlesques were based on existing French operas.

However, in burlesques, breeches roles could be main parts.

It was no longer just burlesque, at least not for me.

When the burlesque show caught up with him he was in bed.

The whole burlesque business, he thought, was worth following up to the end.

The film is set during the second world war in a London burlesque club.

As a teenager, he and his friends went to see burlesque shows.

She turned down each offer in favor of her burlesque career.

The show is a tribute to the old burlesque era.

As the name suggests, there's a burlesque theme hard at work here.

It looked like the kind that starts out as burlesque and ends up being real.

It included some of the most well known names in burlesque entertainment.

The Burlesque collection is generally regarded as the best in the series.

He met his wife, Hattie, in that first burlesque company.

There's a fuzzy line between burlesque as entertainment or art.

It was last used for a burlesque revue in 1986.

She has stated that her interest in burlesque dancing started at around 10 to 12 years old.

The letter is a burlesque account of the trip to Cincinnati.

He is known to have used these talents in amateur burlesque shows.

Compared to them, you're what we call a burlesque show."

Missy is most known for her work as a burlesque performer.

In 1980 she became a member of the burlesque pop band Shock.

She decides to join the chorus line of a burlesque show.

Ultimately, Louise becomes a major burlesque star and does not need her mother any longer.

Then she laughed and played a few bars of a burlesque tune.

Marine Corps personnel were sent to the burlesque house to bring me back.

The film also features real-life burlesque performers from around the world.

She went to the door, burlesquing her normally provocative walk.

Then, warmed by the joy of life, he began clowning on the ditch, burlesquing himself and the quake.

And Mary walked among them, burlesquing the considerate hostess, saying outrageous things to them.

Thomas was already onto the new pronunciation of the language-to the point of burlesquing it.

Burlesquing a matador with a bad bull, he stabbed futilely at the imaginary animal.

You're merely burlesquing the whole business."

Gilbert had written a blank verse musical farce burlesquing the same material in 1870 called The Princess.

At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty.

Otis wrote that in the Ovidian poems of love, he "was burlesquing an old theme rather than inventing a new one."

Price mugs, rolls his eyes continuously and delivers his lines in such an unctuous tone that he comes near to burlesquing the role.

Outwardly, as manager, he was unchanged; but inwardly he was burlesquing smaller, less free souls who would have taken the job seriously.

Aiffe widened her strange eyes, attempting or burlesquing seductiveness, and Farrell found that he could not look away from her.

One can make Pentheus a loud-mouthed tyrant burlesquing his own pride, with Dionysos all wit and charm.

They even had an easy way with the psychology texts that lay about there, fingering through them quickly, then burlesquing not only the words but also the ideas of them.

Pulci erected a structure of his own, often turning the subject into ridicule, burlesquing the characters, introducing many digressions, now capricious, now scientific, now theological.

As for mysteries, visitations--" And here she drew her mouth impossibly down until she looked like Winston Churchill burlesquing the Mask of Tragedy. "

"At early evening kiddie-time on Monday the Monkees would rush through a parody drama, burlesquing the very shows that glue Mom and Dad to the set during prime time.

On the other hand, unlike these horror works, in Dosukoi Series, because these novels are comedies burlesquing other Japanese novels, the covers always represent funny fat sumo wrestlers.

In 1910, he started Desperate Desmond, a humorous continuity strip burlesquing melodramas, dime novels, and fiction weeklies that went in for the hairbreadth rescue and gloating villain sort of material.

He hated me for burlesquing them in an article in the True Delta; so four years later when he died, I robbed the corpse--that is I confiscated the nom de plume.

Pocahontas: or the Gentle Savage was a comic extravaganza which included extracts from an imaginary Viking poem, "burlesquing the recent parodies, good, bad, and indifferent, on The Song of Hiawatha."

In burlesquing L'elisir d'amore, Gilbert retained the characters of the original, inventing only one new principal character, Beppo, assistant (and, as it turns out, long-lost mother) to Dulcamara.