Chicago

The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess a retired dancer and owner of the venue struggles to keep the aging theater alive facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounges troupe members becoming ...

Burlesque features sexy, melancholic, entertaining, lyrical and inspirational style.

There are several differences between this movie and stage versions that presented challenges in bringing this project to the screen. A significant difference is the portrayal of reporter Mary Sunshine (played in this movie by Christine Baranski). In the stage version, Mary Sunshine is played by a very convincing female impersonator who appears to be a large, matronly woman. He sings falsetto, and the audience is not aware that he is a man until the second act, after a line to the effect of "Things are not always what they appear to be!" and someone pulls off the wig and dress, revealing the truth about Mary Sunshine.