Burlesque Moms Cabaret & Cocktails

Episode 033

Halloween Crafting with the Burlesque Moms



It’s officially spooky season and the Burlesque Moms are hard at work crafting everything from skulls to monster teeth, costumes, and so much more!

In this episode, we cover all our crafting favorites, including tips, tricks, and seriously awesome hacks. Want the inside scoop? Join us as we discuss this, and much more, on Burlesque Moms!



In this episode we talk about:

· Our drinks, of course!

· Halloween Eve eve

· Appropriate Halloween decorations

· Rats

· Home repairs and maintenance

· Hex check

· Exorcism season

· Crafting for the holidays

· Our top crafting supplies and sewing favorites

· Bourbon’s affair with hot glue

· Recycling with Bourbon

· Family costumes

· Sadie’s Mario refusal

· F-Bomb’s “brilliant” idea

· Sadie is not a fan of crabs

· Sibling and couples’ costumes

· Rocky Horror costuming

· Sadie’s surger

· Sewing machine cleaning hack, you’re welcome!

· Preventing fraying when sewing

· The discovery of pinking sheers

· Thrilling Thriller costumes

· Coffee, tea, and permanent marker dying

· Sharpie spray, again, you’re welcome!

· Thank goodness for Cosplay forums

· Wig dying

· Fabric scissors

· Shoe goo to the rescue and problems with humidity

· Making rotting flesh on skeletons

· The Cricket for crafting

· Team effort when costuming

· Lily’s happy place

· A little history of the Iao Theatre

· The power of Burlesque



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Episode 032

Back-to-School with the Burlesque Moms

Summer is coming to an end, which means one very important thing for all moms out there—back to school.


How does back to school change things?
How does it affect our Burlesque schedules?
How will Sadie Vine juggle motherhood, burlesque, and grad school?
What can we expect from Burlesque schools?

Join us as we discuss this, and much more, on Burlesque Moms!

In this episode we talk about:


Our drinks, of course!
Burlesque Moms and back to school
What do you do when school isn’t in session?
The pros and cons of kid activities
Taking a page out of Lily O’Lei’s scheduling book
Pros and cons of year-round school
Back-to-school shopping
School day nostalgia
Supply shopping
A terrifying way to wake up
Taxidermy fashion and accessories
Christmas, Halloween, and the chronological discussion
A heavily snake-themed Halloween
How back-to-school affects schedules
Miss F-Bomb and the studio schedule
Marketing psychology
Our sexy school girl, Sadie Vine
Blood in, blood out
Finding a creative outlet
Are You Barre-Polar?
Is F-Bomb abusing her contractors?
Barre-lesque
Good teachers make all the difference
Performers vs teachers
Finding your comfort level
Lily’s misguided advice
Classic Lily O’Lei

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Episode 031

Camp Castaway and Campfire

Does anyone else have fond (or not-so-fond) memories of summer camp? The friendships? The fireside story-telling? S’mores?

Today on Burlesque Moms, we are planning an Adult Summer Camp experience…Burlesque style! What would Summer Glamping look like for a bunch of bawdy burlesquers?

Would we sing songs? Craft cocktails? Pitch some tents? ;)

Find out our fantasies in today’s episode of Burlesque Moms!

In this episode we talk about:

· Our drinks, of course!

· Hair of the dog

· Responsible work behaviors

· Summer kid’s camps

· Bourbon goes to summer camp

· Tsunamis and Sadie

· LDS Girls Camp with F-Bomb

· Burlesque crafting

· Craft cocktails

· Merit badges for Burlesque performances

· Tan lines and Lily O’Lei’s priorities

· The best of glamping

· Cleaning projects and glitter…really Bourbon?

· Summer-themed Burlesque performances

· Pole Dancing on the water

· Ruining everything at the Maui Country Club

· Podcast pre-gaming

· Elevated camp food

· Bourbon’s s’more secrets

· Inappropriate jokes

· Burlesque camp directors and counselors

· 80s and 90s tv show reminiscing

· Do camp songs ever change?

· Backstage scary stories

· Dreaming of Tahiti

· Let’s burn that shit down!

· Hot firefighters and controlled fires

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Episode 030

The Amazing Aly Cardinalli and the Curse of Bourbon Layne

If you’ve listened to our show at all, then you know how much we love Aly Cardinalli—as a performer, a choreographer, a friend, he is awesome and we were so excited to have the opportunity to feature him as our first official Burlesque Moms guest!

Hailing from the middle of nowhere, Texas, where Bourbon Layne was also hiding, Aly joined us in this episode to talk about building a performance community, gaining inspiration, his work in psychic development and witchcraft, and yes, to rid Bourbon Layne, once and for all, of her curse.

Join us as we discuss this, and much more, on Burlesque Moms!

In this episode we talk about:

· Getting to know Aly Cardinalli and how he knows the Burlesque Moms

· Canines, Kiddos, Pasties, and Poultry

· Directing Bent on Maui

· Bourbon Layne’s first burlesque number, choreographed by Aly

· Blood in, blood out

· Bad choreography

· The Trampoline Dance

· Gaining choreography inspiration

· Aly as a child prodigy

· Disruption by a massive Tibetan Mastiff

· Little Shop of Horrors love

· Tripping into a stage performance

· The Nutcracker: A retelling by Aly

· Reasons to kill your roommate

· Working as a witchdoctor and psychic medium

· Psychic charlatans

· “Savage” nations

· The correlation between spiritual connection and choreography

· Building a backstage culture

· The true definition of community

· Theatre superstitions

· The curse of Bourbon Layne

· Pet photo and video bombing

· The problem with burning sage

· No drinks?

· Debilitating stage fright

· Fostering a positive body image in young women

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Special Episode 029

Burlesque DADS?!

In honor of Father’s Day, we want to introduce you to some of our favorite Burlesque Dads!

We are proud (and perhaps a little wary) to have this episode hosted by DotCom (you may know him as Sadie Vine’s husband from Episode 025), Maker Howl (Miss F-Bomb’s husband), Doc Titanium, and Dan Frontier.

In their own words, the Burlesque Dads will discuss what it is to be a male performer, a parent, and a supporter of Burlesque.

Get ready to laugh … and maybe write us a seething letter of protest. As usual, alcohol was involved and there is no censoring this group!

In this episode we talk about:

· Our drinks, of course!

· What’s coming up for Maker Howl

· Chicken feather boas

· Dan Frontier’s rise to solo performer

· Doc Titanium’s lack of rhythm

· Hosting, stand-up, and heckler control

· We love our burlesque audiences…I think we’ve told you before

· Is Burlesque Moms aka Cabaret and Cocktails a coven of witches?

· The Dad-reflex

· The worst thing in the burlesque world

· Glitter, so much glitter

· Backstage differences

· Comedy and burlesque

· Onstage confidence

· Surprising ways to take off your clothing

· S****y burlesque

· Doc Titanium’s deathbed memories

· The absurdity of burlesque

· Maui burlesque

· Our script-writer, Sadie Vine

· “Burlesque is about normal people finding their power and their beauty.” Well-said Doc!

· Sexy is a state of mind

· Virtual vs live performance

· First-timer performances and audience interaction

· A cameo from Bourbon Layne … who is not a Dad, thank you for the clarification

· This is what’s beauty!

· What makes burlesque “tits up”?

· What’s in the future for these men on stage?

· What does being vulnerable look like for men?

· Cancel culture vs. tired culture

· Vulnerability with men’s performance

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Episode 028

Postpartum Body Image and Burlesque

Being a mom is hard enough without adding to that all the crazy, postpartum body issues that seem to inevitably arise.

Today we discuss just that, the postpartum body issues and performing Burlesque pre and post-baby. How has pregnancy, planned or unplanned, changed the way we view ourselves (both mentally and physically)? How have our careers changed or surprisingly, not changed? What can we do to get back our sexy?

From postpartum struggles to wearing a thong on your head, be prepared for a lot of laughs, a lot of reality, and a lot of cursing!

Find out on today’s episode of Burlesque Moms!

In this episode we talk about:

· Our drinks, of course!

· Barre and bubbles

· Boozy salad dressings

· The love/hate relationship with motherhood

· How to regain your sexy after baby

· Body positivity

· Adult ways to regain your sexuality

· Pole Dancing and Burlesque

· Societal pressures of motherhood and body image

· Society has gone bat-shit crazy

· Finding a sense of self

· Knowing your body

· Planned and unplanned pregnancies

· Bourbon Layne birth announcement

· Performing while pregnant

· Balloon number problems

· Birthing shit-shows

· Birth plans

· Losing your identity as a mom

· Body positivity

· Keep your body happy

· Finding time for yourself

· You are sexy as you are

· All bodies are beautiful

· Regaining yourself through movement you love

· The problem with Mom’s Groups

· Bonding over more than the shared experience of motherhood

· Do something that makes you happy

· Being a better friend to yourself

· It’s hot as balls backstage!

· You can’t choose where you lose

· Fake it ‘til you make it

· Getting out of your comfort zone

· You choose how to express yourself

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