Torontoist » cabaret http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Won’t the Real Bozo Please Stand Up?

Aren’t they stinkers? The faces of the sixth annual Toronto Festival of Clowns. Photo by Kathleen Finlay. Mention a clown, and most people either experience (a) fear that out of its joke flower pin will spray a poisonous gas, destroying everything it touches as part of a diabolical plan to spread evil from birthday party [...]

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In this Weekend Planner: performances of all shapes and sizes, ranging from boundary-pushing new theatrical work, to vaudeville and circus, to premodern music, to a portrait of a surrealist painter, to an homage to great feminist art.

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Source: Toronto Tonight!, February 9–23, 1989. You’re flipping through the entertainment options for a night on the town in 1980s Toronto. Let’s see…a cabaret musical about sex that employs a double-entendre for its title…and it has nudity…and it features tunes like “Fellatio 101″ and “I’m Gay”…and it hasn’t been shut down by the morality squad [...]

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