Shows
Upcoming
Friday
March 16th 2012
The Petting Pantry
Door: 9:00 PM
Show: 10:00 PM
$12
Fais Do-Do
5253 W Adams Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
WE’RE BACK, after a brief winter hiatus, we’ll be warming up the spring: dusting off the velvet curtains, lighting up the footlights and bringing back your favorite Roaring ‘20s Burlesque, Tin Pan Alley Tunes and Vaudevillian Sideshows!
With Live MUSIC by:
Doozy - Prohibition pop and Depression-era cheer. Popular tunes of the 1920s & '30s, plus delightful retro-originals! With special guests Penny Starr, Jr.(producer of Victory Variety Hour) and Prix de Beaute, seducing the audience with a couple of numbers to a couple of Doozy originals!
Marquis W Howell II – Bass Slapper, Guitar Picker, Vintage Ephemeral Aggregator AND Howling Hobo of Hobo Jazz!
Cabaret Style BURLESQUE by:
Red Snapper – "The Go All the Way Girl"
Judy Luck – That “Charming Darling of Burlesque”
Prix de Beauté – Rosy Cheeks, Red Hot Lips and a Million Dollars worth of Flying hips!
Vaudeville Style COMEDY by:
Mr. Snapper and Mr. Buddy – The chanteur and ukulele manhandler, and comedy-savant!
The Amazingly Odious Ari and the Capable Miss Puddles – Those two loathsome frauds you all know and love.
HOSTING this fine, little spectacle will be the one, the only Sugar T. Russell – “In the nineteen twenties and thirties…we had bathtub gin and Syphilis and we were glad to have it.”
The beautiful, Miss Vagillante will be assisting on stage, so come give her a hoot and holler as she shimmies and gives you a smack if you get outta line!
*PLUS a special surprise guest – you may recognize her from previous Petting Pantries, armed with ukulele and crystal ball in hand!
So folks, come down and see us at the beautiful Fais Do-Do (originally a bank built in 1930!). There is now a parking lot open across the street! Come down for a drink and an excellent vaudeville show!
Past
Saturday
August 27th 2011
The Petting Pantry
Door: 8:30 PM
Film: 9:00 PM
Show: 10:00 PM
$12
HM 157
3110 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, 90031
July may have been good to the Angelenos, but the summer isn't over yet! Get ready to cook and sizzle at this month's Petting Pantry!
ORIGINAL FILM:
A gender-bending, Battleship Potemkin-inspired film. Cary Cronenwett, Director and Ilona Berger, Director of Photography and Co Screenwriter will be on hand to talk about the film.
LIVE MUSIC:
Surreal folk band which creates a vaudeville-esque, yet modern soundSugar Daddy Covering songs from the 1920s
BURLESQUE BEAUTIES:
Panama Red Icon of the LA burlesque scene
Honey Ima Home Just returned from performing with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas
Prix de Beauté Specializing in 1920s dances
VAUDEVILLE ACTS:
THE AMAZINGLY ODIOUS ARI AND THE CAPABLE MISS PUDDLES! "Magic", "comedy", and "music"
Sugar T. Russell Hosting and comedy with special guest: Bette Davis!
MADAME PAMITA
Reading your tarot cards and performing original tunes on her ukulele!
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
The Petting Pantry
Doors Open: 9:00 PM
Show: 10:00 PM
$10
HM 157
3110 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, 90031
Hot, muggy summer is here and you all know that means one thing: The Petting Pantry is back at the great, outdoor venue HM157, to cool you off with Roaring '20s Burlesque, Tin Pan Alley Tunes, Vaudevillian Sideshows and Silent Flickers!
Kicking off a hot summer of vaudeville this July, we're featuring:
Exotic Beauties of Burlesque:
All the way from Italy, please welcome:
CLEO VIPER
ISABELLA STAR
Boston Burlesque Expo 2010's Best Solo Performance & Legends Award Winner
SCARLETT LETTER
Fantastical Vaudeville Acts:
Puppet show by operators and builders: UNKNOWN HANDS Puppet Troupe!
Hosting and therapy session by THE AMAZINGLY ODIOUS ARI AND THE CAPABLE MISS PUDDLES!
Live Music for You to Shake a Stick and High Heel at:
MADAME PAMITA
(Also reading your Tarot Cards at the show!)
princessFrank
(Bringing you raw, one man band blues!)
What do you get when you combine vaudeville and Klaus Nomi?
TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM
(Featured in LA Weekly's BEST OF LA PEOPLE ISSUE 2011)
So come down for the first vaudeville of the summer and catch an AMAZING show!
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
We Love Dick!
9:00 PM-12:00 AM
$10
HM 157
3110 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, 90031
The Petting Pantry loves Dick and we think you should too! If you love yourself a little Dick Powell, come down to Hm Onefiftyseven on Saturday, June 25th for We Love Dick: A Burlesque Salute to Dick Powell.
Join Prix de Beauté, Holly Go Darkly, and the biggest Dick lovers in the City of Angels, and tell the world... WE LOVE DICK!! There will be burlesque chorus lines, crooning live music and collegiate comedy, all inspired by our favorite Dick!
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The Petting Pantry presents:
The Sugar Bowl
9:00 PM-12:00 AM
$8-$10 Donation
The Palm Court at the Alexandria Hotel
501 S. Spring Street
1st Floor
Los Angeles, 90013
The Petting Pantry is teaming up with the Gallery Girls every month during the Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles to bring you a night of drawing and entertainment!
At 10:00 PM, Prix de Beauté will woo you with her rosy cheeks, red hot lips and a million dollars worth of flying hips in a burlesque dance!
At 11:00 PM, Madame Pamita will sing NEW songs on her trusty uke and read your fortune all night with her famous tarot cards!
And Two-Bit Opera will be serenading you all night in the hallways, luring you to come in and have a sweet, little treat at the Palm Court!
The Gallery Girls will have live models from 9:00 PM -12:00 AM for you to draw.
Thursday, February 25th, 2011
The Petting Pantry
Syrup Loft939 Maple Ave. (3rd Floor)
(corner of Olympic)
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Doors: 9:30 PM
Show: 10:00 PM
Admission: $10
Once again, the Petting Pantry has gone back underground: speakeasy style! We will be presenting at Syrup Loft in downtown LA this February!
Since it is February and love is in the air, get your heart broken by burlesque beauties:
Miss Viva Las Vegas 2008, Dizzy Von Damn!
The lovely Bebe' Firefly
And the flapper, Prix de Beauté
Treat your ears to swoon-worthy music by:
The San Francisco Song Bird, Mikal Sandoval, who will sing you songs from the 1920s in rare form, echoed perfectly from yesteryear
While Cat Hair Ensemble will roar in the '20s with new tunes inspired by the greats!
Get your Vaudeville kicks on with:
Madame Pamita, who will read your fortune while playing you original tunes!
And prepare for the Blonde Dahlia to knock your socks off with the songs of Marlene Dietrich!
>Odious and Puddles will, of course, try to swindle your money once again
While Sugar T. Russell will host, regaling tales of the prime of her life...or will she?
All this heart throbbing excitement for a mere $10 at the door! Doors open at 9:30 PM, so come and have a drink and listen to rare and classic tunes from the Vaudeville era until the show starts at 10:00 PM. Stay after the show for DJ'd music, including 78s, from DJ Odious!
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
The Petting Pantry presents:
The Sugar Bowl
9:00 PM-12:00 AM
$8-$10 Donation
The Palm Court at the Alexandria Hotel
501 S. Spring Street
1st Floor
Los Angeles, 90013
The Petting Pantry is teaming up with the Gallery Girls every month during the Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles to bring you a night of drawing and entertainment!
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
The Petting Pantry at The Palm Court
Doors: 9:30pm
Show: 10:00pm
Dancing and Drinking: Until 2:00am
The Palm Court at the Alexandria Hotel
501 S. Spring Street
1st Floor
Los Angeles, 90013
$10
Tickets can be bought in advance at Brown Paper Tickets
The Petting Pantry is back for your pleasure and entertainment starting Saturday, January 22nd! That's right, folks: we trudged from Muskegon with our wagon train, through the snows of the mid-west, getting stuck in the Rocky Mountains, thus having only one choice for sustenance with no wild game to be found...Wait a minute! That wasn't our story!
Anyway...
We're back, with a new winter home at the Mezz Bar in the gorgeous, historic Alexandria Hotel!
This month will feature unbridled delights from that "Pe-Tite Barnum of Burlesque", the award winning, Penny Starr, Jr.!
Be prepared, my friends, because that "sexy librarian with a killer shoe collection", Pam Shaffer, will send your hearts a-flutter with her whimsical songs and her honeyed voice!
Clear the way, dear readers, because that incomparable doctor of words, Mooey Moobau will baffle you with his contraptions and confound you with his utter nonsense!
Madame Pamita will look far, far into your future and profess to you what riches your life has in store! All of her embodied visions will cause her to break out into song with each fortune told!
Did I hear you say you would like to see the wonders and the beauties of the fantastical, Kate Fox? Well, my minions, you have come to the right place, because Miss Fox will dazzle you with her sly dancing and catch you off guard with her quick wit!
And for those of you who want to kick up your heels and forget your New Year Resolutions, AK and Her Kalashnikovs will be there to rattle the house with boisterous numbers from Eastern Europe and much more as you forget your woes and become entranced by their hypnotic melodies!
Our fine landlady hostess, Sugar T. Russell, will make you feel cozy with her drunken belligerencies and awkward statements and she stumbles through the night on what she thinks is fine theater flooring and excellent fire standards.
Of course, Odious and Puddles will always be there to spoil the show and swindle your money, while Two-Bit Opera will pay tribute to Tin Pan Alley and Prix de Beauté will give you a fringe cascading tease you'll never forget!
All of this plus DJed music from 1900-1930s until the end of the night with DJ Odious, who will also be playing his collection of 78s!
So, as usual, grab your best tomato, hop in your cake basket and sputter down to the Mezz for a whangdoodle of a good time!
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
The Petting Pantry presents:
The Sugar Bowl
9:00 PM-12:00 AM
$5-$10 Donation
The Palm Court at the Alexandria Hotel
501 S. Spring Street
1st Floor
Los Angeles, 90013
The Petting Pantry is teaming up with the Gallery Girls every month during the Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles to bring you a night of drawing and entertainment!
Draw live costumed models in 25 minute poses all night with a different theme every month and catch the The Sugar Bowl every hour while the models take a break! Acts planned for 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM and 11:30 PM
This month will feature burlesque by the Cheeky Cherie Au Lait, here to sweeten your day!
Mooey Moobau will make an appearance to boggle you with a bull horn and equally mind boggling lyrics to leave you curious for more!
And last and least will be the Two-Bit Opera, paying tribute to Tin Pan Alley with rare and forgotten tunes, along with originals by Ari DeSano!
So, bring your sketch pad (whether you're a pro or can only draw stick figures!), brush up on your drawring skills and enjoy some Petting Pantry entertainment during the breaks! All this for a $5-$10 donation. There is also a full bar in the back! See ya there!
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The Petting Pantry Presents:
The Sugar Bowl
A Sweet Little Treat of Burlesque, Music and Variety!
9:00 PM-12:00 AM
Art Walk in Downtown LA
King Edward Ballroom in the Alexandria Hotel
Shows at 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30
$5-$10 Donation
We're teaming up with the Gallery Girls to bring you a night of art and entertainment every 2nd Thursday at the Art Walk in Downtown LA. This event is held in the gorgeous, King Edward Ballroom in the Alexandria Hotel. So, bring a sketch pad to draw the costumed models from 9:00 PM-12:00 AM and catch the Sugar Bowl in between: 9:30-10:30-11:30! $5-$10 Donation.
This month, Tori Adorable will knock your socks off with burlesque, The Katter With Misses will ring your eardrums with holiday tunes and Odious and Puddles will be, well, Odious and Puddles! Grab your eggnog, your stocking and get ready to sit on Santa's lap!
Sunday, October 31st, 2010 Doors: 9:30
Der Blue Stocking
at
The Mezz (at the Alexandria Hotel)
501 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, 90013
Eric Adams (producer of the Bevy and Scary Mary) and the Petting Pantry bring you a Halloween Celebration of Weimar Era Decadence: Der Blue Stocking.
Influenced by the freedom, art and experimentation of the unique Weimar culture, we're bringing you a Halloween night of burlesque, live music, Vaudeville acts ranging from the strange to deranged, tarot card readings and DJ'ed era music all night!
Der Blue Stocking is FREE and a relaxed club atmosphere, so throw on that costume, bring your friends and grab a drink to enjoy the best show in town this Halloween!
Performances by:
- Dizzy Von Damn!
- Creekbird
- Iza la Vamp
- Jen Jen the Burlesque Blockhead Bombshell
- Lucille Highball
and more...
Emceed by: The Amazingly Odious Ari and the Capable Miss Puddles
Tarot Card Readings by: Madame Pamita
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Come this September, for the last exciting vaudeville serial for the summer (before the Petting Pantry folk retire to Muskegon for the winter)! This show will be expertly hosted by the great Jason Savvy! Prepare your growling stomachs and hungry eyes for that bacon obsessed hypnotist, Ba-Ba Baconface! You'd better repent, wicked sinners, because when Holly Go Darkly appears to take your soul, you'll be frozen in your seat while she tempts you down the devil's way with her gorgeous curves and unholy dancing! Watch those gaping maws, boys, because Lady M & the Ghosts of Echo Park will set your hearts a thumpin with her roaring vocals and swaying hips! Feast your eyes on the lovely, leggy Iza LaVamp; but be careful, young men, because she is known to break a heart in two with one, lusty look! You won't believe your eyes when the beautiful Miss Cory Marie jingles, jangles and swishes her way around the stage in an exotic belly dance that will take you back to the time of Ali Baba! Giggle at goofy 1920s tunes from Two-Bit Opera and blush at the sporting forwardness of Prix de Beauté! The Amazingly Odious Ari and the Capable Miss Puddles will try one last time to make a comeback on the vaudeville circuit; perhaps singing and dancing will be involved (if not loss of pants and drunken brawls)! Get your fortune told by the gifted Madame Pamita! And get yourself a vegan hotdog from the Frankenstand! Stay after the show for the breathtaking invention of incredible, moving picture shorts graciously provided by Terry Ellsworth and Kelley Francis!
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
In this toasty August month, witness the Amazingly Odious Ari and the Capable Miss Puddles duke it out right in front of your very eyes! It'll be more colossal than the battle of Jeffries vs Fitzsimmons in aught two! Become entranced by the hypnotic melodies of The Four Seasons of the Cobra Lilies! Hold on to your feathered hats, ladies, because the exotic Jen Jen the Burlesque Blockhead Bombshell will call up her fire breathing abilities to mystify and ...baffle your mortal souls (we hear she has a pact with the devil)! Hold onto your monocles, gentlemen, because the tantalizing Miss of the circus, Tori Adorable will shimmy her way into your hearts (and if you're not careful, your wallets)! You won't leave this show the same once you've witnessed the marvels and impossible feats of of the ferocious vixen, Queenie Jean! You won't believe your ears as the siren of song, Leah Harmon, takes the stage and takes you back to simpler times when bicycles were built for two! Giggle at goofy 1920's tunes from Two-Bit Opera and blush at the sporting forwardness of Prix de Beauté! Have your fortune told by the mysterious Madame Pamita who will be occupying the canopy next to the stage and oggle at the breathtaking invention of incredible, moving pictures graciously provided by Terry Ellsworth!
This month after the live show, we will be featuring "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em", a rarely shown silent film which co-stars the lovely Louise Brooks!
