The Hurly Burly girlys are back in town with a bigger, bolder, sexier new show for a summer season of deliciously bawdy fun. Starring Miss Polly Rae, The Hurly Burly Show is an all-singing, ...

This female-friendly identity is a key part of burlesque’s comeback, as both last night’s show and its audience demonstrated. Men – some unsuspecting white-haired gentleman-of-a-certain-age discovered ...

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"I'm not a stripper, I'm a burlesque ­artiste," claims the delightful Miss Polly Rae. It's a nice point, as the lawyers say. The word "burlesque" is clearly intended to lend a certain postmodern irony ...

I don't know if it's the husky singing style, the saucy gleam in the eye, or the gradual removal of their clothes, but there's something about Miss Polly Rae and her Hurly Burly Girlys that the ...

Whooping and cheering to persuade someone to take their clothes off isn’t usually how you’d spend a night out at the theatre – but is de rigeur for a burlesque show. “The louder you are, the more ...

Burlesque is now so mainstream it would be unsurprising to see bump and grind lessons on the NHS. And who better to teach them than Miss Polly Rae, the star of this mildly titillating cocktail of ...

Miss Polly Rae brings The Hurly Burly Show and Girls to the Garrick billed as a “contemporary burlesque revue” helmed by fashion designer, stylist Rent Remixed director and Kylie Minogue collaborator ...

It’s not often you find yourself advised at the start of a West End performance that “mobile phones, photography and fellatio are not permitted”, but then The Hurly Burly Show isn’t exactly your ...

I’m on a hiding to nothing with this one. Say how much I liked it – and boy, did I like it – and I will be vilified by prudes, Guardian-reading feminists and very possibly my dear old mum. However, ...