Beef & Boards Presents BAGGY PANTS BURLESQUE, 12/28

Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre announces a fun and flirty new show will come to its stage for just 10 performances before the 2012 Season kicks off in January.

Jack Milo's Baggy Pants Burlesque makes its Indianapolis debut Dec. 28. The show takes audiences back to the best of playful Vaudeville entertainment, and stars Beef & Boards funny men Doug Stark and Jeff Stockberger, together with Milo himself.

"People should expect to laugh their butts off," Milo said of his show. "They should expect old-time burlesque."

While Beef & Boards is giving the production a PG-13 rating, and Milo agrees it's "definitely not for little kids," the show harkens back to original burlesque fun.

"Burlesque became an offshoot of Vaudeville, and they decided to go a little more racy with it," Milo said. "People have expectations of a strip show, and it isn't that. It's basically comedy sketches and musical numbers. There's a lot of double entendres and off-color jokes. It's all innuendo. We don't say cuss words; we don't do any of that."

Rather, he describes the show as "fun, fast and furious."

Beef & Boards has done several burlesque-type shows in its history, Milo pointed out, recalling last performing in Sugar Babies with Stark in 1992. "It's a variation of what Sugar Babies was - but it's a little more raw," he explained of Baggy Pants Burlesque. "Sugar Babies was tamer."

That said, "It's far tamer than anything that's out there now. The teenagers have heard far worse than what (is in the show) - and we're not explicit in our double entendres. It's nothing but comedy and good-looking women."

This type of entertainment, with "more tease than sleaze," will appeal to multiple generations, he added. "For the older group, they will remember burlesque. For the younger group, they will appreciate the pre-Saturday Night Live, Daily Show stuff, which is far more offensive in terms of content. The stuff that's out there now in our common culture is far more overt in terms of sexual innuendo."

Stark joined Milo when the new show made its debut this spring in Illinois. "I'm kind of looking forward to the idea that it's an entirely different cast with the exception of Doug and I," Milo said of the show's next venue: Beef & Boards. "It will be fun."

Baggy Pants Burlesque has 10 performances scheduled in the intimate space of Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, including a special New Year's Eve performance, featuring extras like party favors and a breakfast buffet. All tickets are $49 ($75 for the New Year's Eve event). Tickets include Chef Odell Ward's dinner buffet, coffee, tea and lemonade. Parking is free.

For reservations, call the Beef & Boards Box Office at 317.872.9664. Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays. For more information, including show schedule, visit www.beefandboards.com.

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