Festival Highlights and Thank You's

What and amazing 3 nights of burlesque, vaudeville, drag and sideshow. It's been a few weeks and the glitter has settled and the costume have been put away and this year was written in the books as the most successful year yet! Performers from all over the world joined us for an amazing celebration of burlesque and remembrance. 

Thursday - Mahall's 20 Lanes Lakewood 
Dolly Moxy kicked off the show with a very adorable piece, later Erik Tate
 killed the audience with laughter with his magical comedy act. 

Fifi Glitterbomb hypnotized us 
with her flowing fan movements. 

Boobs Raley owned the stage with charisma and energy. 

Cast Photo from Thursday Night Opener at Mahall's 


Friday Night All Starts!
Can we say this night was high energy and a burst of laughs and amazing creative, innovative numbers. Hosted by Foxy Tann from Minneapolis.
The night kicked off with comedic magic by The hamburgeler from Ellie Quinn, It continues with the artistic work from Cleveland's Own Eliza Sidecar.

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Sanjula from Chicago and Lilli Paralax from Columbus showcased physical strength and bravery in a lavish beautiful way on stage on the friday night stage. 

Then RedBone Took Your Boyfriend..... Mic Drop*

Headliners on Friday

Matt Knife from New York City recreated the Red Room from a famous David Lynch Classic "Twin Peaks"

Hypnotic Boylesque with flowing red silk fans, Boy did he set the mood for friday's headlining block! 

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Bella Sin "Cleveland's Burlesque Queen" Debuted an innovative piece with a darker spin, The Combination of art/video projection. lighting design, light up feather fans and costuming. She took us thru a very powerful visual, audio, sensory theater. raising the bar! 

Red Rum from Chicago ended the night with her Catacomb Saints piece leaving the audience ready for so much more! The costume was detailed to the very last bone finger! 

Friday Night All Stars Cast at The Beachland Ballroom Stage. 

The Saturday Night Gala
The Gala Kicked off with the announcement of our Scroll from Cleveland City Council and our Recognition Letter from The Ohio House of Representatives. 

Mizter Scratch from Boston Hosted The Saturday Night Gala That Kicked off Flawlessly!  
Mika Romantic and Vikki Fahrenheit started the night in style, Red was the choice of color in memory of Dixie for our opening numbers. Siobhan Atomic performed a stunning fan dance in memory of her father.  Miss Theresa brought a character to electrifying light and Honey Merlot serenaded us, Then Poison Ivory showed us her love affair with pudding! 

Features and Headliers

Feature Cherie Blondell from Columbus giving us good face and a hell of a stocking peel! 

The Boston Babydolls were energetic with their group number, Aya Fontaine followed with a timeless old school burlesque piece. 

Our Headliner The 2013 Princess of Burlesque 
Sydni Deveraux from New York City dazzled the crowd with a beautiful star boa and a heck of a figure! She absolutely left the audience gasping for air. 

The Saturday Night Cast, Festival Crew, Kittens, Volunteers and Production Team. 

The 4th Annual International Ohio Burlesque Festival will like to say thank you to all our friends, fans, staff, directors, volunteers, vendors, venues, sponsors, attendees, print media, web media, promotional team and performers for all their support and attendance to the festival.
Thank you to Ambiance The Store for Lovers for Presenting our Festival! 
 We would also like to thank The City of Cleveland and 
The State House of Representatives for our wonderful awards.
We look forward to an amazing year of volunteerism in representation of The Aids Taskforce of Greater Cleveland. We also congratulate all our Golden Buckeye Award Winners for 2014 ! 

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The 5th Annual International Ohio Burlesque Festival will take Place for 3 days at The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern July 30th thru Aug 1st 2015.