Audra is a writer, editor, actor, & filmmaker with an MFA from Mills College. She is the co-writer/director of the short film Souls of Splendor, which is about gay comic book fans in San Francisco. Audra is also known as Odessa Lil: Mistress of Ceremonies. Ever since she ran SpeakEasily, the first-ever weekly neo-burlesque show in Oakland back in 2004, Odessa Lil has been whipping audiences into shape all around the Bay. Catch her burlesque talk show SPEAKEASILY on YouTube!
9.22.2004
It’s official! TUESDAY is the new Friday!
And how!
This Tuesday, September 28, 2004, SpeakEasily welcomes back:
TIPPY CANOE AND THE PADDLEMAN!
Yes! Shake a leg with TIPPY CANOE AND THE PADDLEMEN, the 1920's jazzcountrydoowoppop uke/upright bass duo!
AND
Burlesque beauty THE FLYING FOX brings old-time Hollywood glamour to the SpeakEasily stage…but just when you thought we were becoming civilized…
HERE COMES
Bombshell Betty's "Burlesquercise!" Bonanza!
AND, of course, THE MILE HIGH METER DANCERS are FOR RENT…their
dance-floor affections are all yours for a few dollars a dance. Getta load of these gold-diggers! They’re hot stuff!
http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html
to view pictures: http://www.wolfmann.blogspot.com
The Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA
Doors and Meter Dancing at 8, Show starts 9-ish
$5
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com
Oakland, Baby…Oakland,
~Odessa Lil~
AND WHAT'S DOES THE FUTURE HOLD???
http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/cal/2004/09/index.html