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The Can Can restaurant is host to the ELECTRIC! burlesque show every Saturday night. Four performers, led by Choreographer Rainbow Fletcher, dance their way through a series of modern songs including numbers by Feist, White Stripes and MGMT. Rainbow is accompanied by Faggedy Randy, Jonny Boy and Fiona Minx, known collectively as the Can Can Castaways, as “My Moon, My Man”, “Electric Feel”, and AC/DC are subject to Rainbow’s interpretation.
Opinion was divided as to the highlight of the night, but just ahead of the rest was Rainbow’s own solo dancing to “That’s Not My Name” by the Ting Tings, in which she somehow managed to appear dressed in an astronaut’s suit and helmet and make it both sensual and relevant. Jonny Boy, looking all the world like Freddie Ljungberg’s son, brought strength to many of the less delicate numbers and performed a duet with Rainbow in which she lifted him, which was a nice role reversal. Great use was made of bows and stretch fabric tied around the stage as the dancers tried and succeeded to utilise limited space.
A novel act accompanied “Electric Feel’ with Faggedy Randy starting the number in a green stretch fabric sack. Inventive, but the poor lad ran out of new things to do in there a little early.
ELECTRIC! is charged by a magnetic "rock" soundtrack and apart from the introductions at the start and end of each half, there is no comedy or speaking. The price for the 7.30 show is $40/45. It includes a three course meal. For the extra fiver you get a better view. We would recommend this as we were originally sat at a table where other diners obscured the lower half of the stage, an area which a great deal of the action took place on, for the first three numbers. After we moved, we had an excellent view. The price for the 10:30PM show time includes a show ticket and a voucher to use towards your food and/or beverage bill
Although there are highly expensive special packages available, $45 represents excellent value for a night out and a three course meal. Some of the acts are as good as what we saw at the Triple Door, although ELECTRIC!’s self-imposed restriction on one genre of music by its nature really prevented too much variety, but did ensure continuity. There was sexuality in abundance and some nudity but nothing too outlandish, and the show is 21 and over anyway. There is something in this show for both genders. The boys are athletic and agile, and Rainbow and her friend Fiona Minx, very sensual.
Among other shows currently running there are I See London, I See France, Seattle Sound's "The Song Show" and AEROBOTRON!, and given that Rainbow Fletcher seems to be an extremely able choreographer, our interest was sufficiently piqued to want to check out at least one of these shows.
ELECTRIC! runs to July 25th and you can find out more details here.
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