Mardi Gras happened last week.

That did not stop people from catching the Beat City Beauties sinning away at the Arch Street Tavern on Sunday night.

The Beat City Beauties are Hartford’s burlesque troupe. This weekend, the performance featured an emcee on stilts (the tall ones, and for the entire show), a salute to Say Anything, beads being pulled from places beads ought not be found, and, it needs to be said, a lot of ladies in the audience.

With a slightly elevated stage at this venue, people in the back of the room actually had a shot at seeing shoes tossed and feather boas thrown.

The next show is on April 6th at the Arch Street Tavern.

Photos below the fold are generally safe for work and do not include final reveals.

Victoria Van Layer

Gouda Neville, looking up from her reading
Tedd E. Bare, repping Hartford

 

Misery Moonshine gets down to Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”

Stage kitten  Avery Thang takes a selfie in between sets
Israel Haught, a stage kitten, waiting to collect garments