PERFORMANCE VIDEOS
HOSTING &
COMPÈRING
Dolly is rambunctious, energetic, silly and interactive. She’s an experienced compère, hosts her own show, Cabaret Sauvignon, and hosted for shows such as Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival, Peacock Lounge, Green Man Festival’s Wishbone, Albert’s Schloss, National Student Pride & Cheek Of It Burlesque School.
HOSTING SONGS EXAMPLES
Dolly has a large repertoire of songs, here are just SOME examples, several of these videos include introducing herself. There are also some examples of her audience “bits”: warmer uppers/ hosting examples. When hosting, Dolly may also perform some of her standalone cabaret acts (which are further down!)
All Coming Back To Me Now
Chiquitita
Love Shack
Sexyback
Sexy & I Know It
Money Money Money
Tribute Tenacious D
HOSTING: AUDIENCE
“BIT” EXAMPLES
Arm Can Can
Easter Recorder
Precious the Dog
Punk Rocker Audience Band
Birthday Time Warp [Halloween]
Audience’s 12 Days of Christmas
CABARET ACTS
For when she’s an act on a lineup, or to be performed as part of being a host
Live
Vocals
Acts
Don’t Impress Me
High energy Sing & Fling! Shania Twain 90s pop simultaneous live vocals & burlesque
Backing Track: Don’t Impress Me Much [Shania Twain] - 3m49s
Mould
One of Dolly’s most popular acts, a parody song about the risks of buying reduced aisle bread
Backing Track: Gold [Spandau Ballet] —[approx 1min lead in + 3m47s track
Over The Moon
From RENT, a performance of Maureen’s absurdist protest song about capitalism, Elsie the cow, and Cyberland.
Backing Track: Over the Moon [Rent] - 8 mins
Lipsync Based
Cabaret Acts
Airplane
Air hostess act inspired by the 1980 film, a comedy gastroenteritis plane crash and the problems of “serving fish”
Music: Fly On The Wings [XTM], Food Glorious Food [Oliver] , SOS [Abba], SOS [Rihanna], clips : Airplane & Kitchen Nightmares - 9m20s
All That Jazz
Broadway Baby pisstake, solely lipsync with caricature movement and expressions, tap dance and musical theatre jazz climax
Music: All That Jazz [ Chicago] - 5m06s——————————————————————————————————————————————-
Bad Kitty
A mischievous kitty pushing things off tables into a catnip fuelled neo-burlesque strip frenzy
Music: Nyan Cat, I Want to be Evil [Eartha Kitt], The Next Episode [Dr Dre, Snoop], Look What the Cat Dragged [Giggs], Everybody Wants to be a Cat [ Electric Swing Circus], Hello Kitty [Avril Lavigne] - 5m00s
Bird of Paradise
The courtship of the Bird of Paradise and their “magnificent display”. David Attenborough leading into parody and high energy Neo-burlesque dance with balletic elements
Music: The Bad Tough [Bloodhound Gang] + David Attenborough clips — 4m38s
Bunny
Asleep in a meadow, she bounces into action awakening to an audience and 24 carrots. She’s in fact, Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit, and vanquishes the knight’s ambush with a victory dance and neo-burlesque strip.
Music: Morning Wood [Peer Gynt], Bounce [Kelis], 24K Magic [Bruno Mars], Rabbit Hole [Natalia Kills] + Monty Python clips - 5m48s
CascadaMegamix
Super high energy noughties dancefest, for Y2K events, clubnights, and getting shows poppin’.
Music: Evacuate the Dancefloor, Because the Night, What Hurts The Most, EveryTime We Touch [Cascada] — 4m47s
Cher Fitness
A lipsync act depicting fthe best bits of Cher’s Fitness videos, her tips on butt exercises, and her song made to go with them
Music: Save Up All Your Tears [ Cher] + clips from Cher Fitness videos — 5m10s
Frozen
Disney cringe to the main hit from Frozen, until a thunderstorm hits, leading into a grand ballet lipsync to the main hit from Frozen II.
Music: Let It Go [Frozen], Into the Unknown [Frozen II] - 5m45s
Goatherd
High on a hill was a lonely goat ft. puppets. Sound of Music version into the remix, puppets launched, into commercial dance and lipsync
Music: The Lonely Goatherd [Sound of Music], Wind It Up [Gwen Stefani] — 3m49s
Grapes
One of Dolly’s most famous and extremely ridiculous acts, she is a bunch of grapes. Moira Rose lipsync about being a potent grape, into punk rock balloon pop, until realising… she’s popped all her grapes :( culminates in a comedy emotional lipsync with wine pour from crotch (into a bucket… no mess on the stage)
Music: Heard It on the Grapvine (The Slits], Schitt’s Creek clips, Start Wearing Purple [Gogol Bordello], Purple Rain [Prince] - 6m34s
Jolene
High energy lipsync Dolly Parton remix with silk fans pulled from boots - find out who you are, and do it on purpose.
Music: Jolene Dumplin’ Remix [Dolly Parton] + clips from Dumpli’ film - 4m05s
Kylie
A Kylie Minogue Tribute Act made for Cabaret Vs Cancer’s Night of 1000 Kylie’s
Music: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie Minogue] - Abbey Road Session, Original + Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head [Kylie, New Order] — 4m13s
No More Tears - Double Act with Rhys’ Pieces
Raincoats and wellies at the ready, energetic double act combining comedy, choreography, prop humour and successively larger umbrellas
Music: No More Tears (Enough is Enough) [Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand] - 4m48s
Penguin
Comedy dramatic lipsync, the Madagascar Penguin’s escape, wing flapping Cha Cha Slide and Happy Feet-esque fast tap dance climax
Music: Frozen [Madonna], Cha Cha Slide [DJ Casper], Boogie Wonderland [Earth, Wind & Fire] + clips from Madagascar - 6m23s
Poker Face
Lipsync and choreography the house down Lady Gaga lipsync
Music: Poker Face [Lady GaGa, & remixes]
Seal
Begins as a comedy lipsync, but have you seen the documentaries showing how orca hunt seals by knocking them off the ice? An unfortunate tale, ending in Dolly live singing with deliverance to heaven (Benefits from projection, not essential.
Music: Signed, Sealed Delivered [Samantha Mumba] + piano backing track + Blue Planet clips - 7m44s
Zebra
Originally made for Luspinda’s Drag Circus, it’s a story about the zebra that have escaped from the local circus. Susan Boyle ballad into Osmond’s high energy neo-burlesque strip as the zebra make their escape
Music: Wild Horses [Susan Boyle], Crazy Horses [The Osmonds, Utah Saints]
Seasonal Acts
Christmas & Halloween
Christmas Bussy
A flithy rap pardoy to the tune of Wet Ass Pussy
Backing track: WAP [Cardi B] - 5mins
Santa Claus is Comin To Town
A simple lipsync and dance performance for opening festive shows
Music: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town [Jessie J] - 3m07s
MortiCher
Cher was originally sought after to play Morticia until Anjelica Houston was cast! Lipsync, dance and Neo-burlesque strip of the Dark Lady
Music: Dark Lady [Cher], Woman’s World [Dark Lady] + Addam’s Family clips -7m47s
Feeling Gourd
Rewritten parody song sing & fling about Dolly’s life as a gourd
*act updated since this video with tearaway pumpkin and orange lingerie set
Backing Tack: Feeling Good - 4m42s
Ghostbusters
Lipsync and dance act to various versions of Ghostbusters theme song
Music: Ghostbusters [Ray Parker Jr, Pentatonix, Fall Out Boy, Walk The Moon] - 3m456s