THIS WAS BURLESQUE Ann Corio Souvenir theatrical PLAY program vintage original

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THIS WAS BURLESQUE Ann Corio Souvenir theatrical PLAY program vintage original photos, stories, biographies
This theatrical program booklet has pages of photos and fact filled pages! PLEASE NOTE: The scanned pages may have been cropped due to the limitations of my scanner.
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(1960’s? Original Theatrical Program) An original event program for Ann Corio's stage show "This Was Burlesque" featuring many performers of various types from essentially strippers and exotic dancers to comedians and musicians --- ~20 pages in total with performer bios and pictures and many well-known burlesque dancers in various stages of undress, nudity or almost naked inside --- and couple pages of vaudeville/burlesque history and performers over the years such as Jackie Gleason. Did not show all pages/photos so there's something 'left to the imagination' and for the new owner only, but these 'unseen' pages are as good or better than the pics/pages included in this auction listing." ''This Was Burlesque,'' billed as a musical satire based on Ms. Corio's recollections, opened at the Casino East Theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan and ran for 1,509 performances before it moved to the Hudson Theater on Broadway and ran for 124 more. Over the ensuing years, numerous productions played across the country from Miami to Las Vegas to San Juan. The last performance was in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1991.""She exploited her past in 1962 when she conceived and appeared a popular revue based on her theatrical recollections, This Was Burlesque. The show ran nearly 30 years in various forms, playing Off-Broadway, Broadway and touring houses."
·       Softcover: 16 pages plus covers. ·       Publisher: Boston Herald-Traveler ·       Language: English
Product Dimensions: An Original Vintage Play Souvenir Program Book (measures 8.5" x 11")
Shipping Weight: 15 ounces.
Photos from the play/theatrical, story and character pictures. Black & white photos from the play along with accompanying text. Attractive and colorful covers.   ”
CONDITION:
This vintage theatrical program is in VERY GOOD condition with patina (hand dirt), minor scuffing, faint crease kisses at the spine and the natural aging of the white pages that keeps it from being excellent. I wish could find a comparable in this condition… but this is the only one I could find. Condition wise there is normal use but you have to look hard to find it!
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BACKGROUND:
“ Ann Corio (1909 – 1999) was a prominent American burlesque stripper and actress. Ann Corio's original surname was Coiro. She changed her name to Corio for stage purposes and because some family members did not approve of her profession. Corio had a long successful career dancing on stage. In 1962 she put together the nostalgic off-Broadway show This Was Burlesque which she directed and in which also performed. In 1968, she wrote a book with the same title. Her fame was enduring enough that in the 1970s—when Corio was long retired and in her sixties—she twice was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. During this same period, she took This Was Burlesque out on the summer stock circuit for several seasons. In 1981, the show played Broadway at the old Latin Quarter, which was then known as the Princess Theatre, and tried to compete with Sugar Babies which was running just a few blocks up the street. In 1985, she mounted the show for the second to last time in downtown Los Angeles, at the Variety Arts Theatre, where it did not have a good run. A year or so later, the show played a dinner theatre in Florida, where it closed for good. IT seems only yesterday that Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, cleaning up Times Square, ran burlesque out of 42d Street, clear to Union City, N.J. Actually that happened more than 40 years ago. It is something of a commentary too that Ann Corio, once a supreme practitioner of the torrid striptease art, has brought her stage memoir, ''This Was Burlesque,'' back to Times Square, to the Princess Theater, and it has an almost uplifting effect on the neighborhood. ''This Was Burlesque'' has been around since 1964, when, with Miss Corio as star, director and author, it opened on Second Avenue. It later moved to Broadway, where burlesque was already a matter of distant recall, and then went touring. Now back on Broadway, the show appears less than titillating as it lets everything hang out in the flesh in the time-honored melange of girls and gags that really was burlesque. The jokes and double entendres are old, the way the show is done is old, even many, but by no means all, of the people who laughed loudest in the preview audience betrayed an age that hinted their visit was a pilgrimage to the past. Miss Corio, who looks radiant, does it all by the book and, whether you like the book or not, it is to her credit that she catches the flavor of the old burlesque with little attempt to ennoble or elevate it. This is close to the real thing. There are strippers, ''exotic dancers'' in more suave terms, who peel down to all but the final essentials. Two of them, Tami Roche and Lili Chanel, are women, extremely eye-catching and generously endowed, and one, an innovation to the take-it-off circuit, is ''Patrick,'' a male stripper whose mission is to arouse and amuse the ladies in the house. Burlesque comics were something special and there is no dearth of them here. Phil Ford and Jerry Kurland do song-and-dance comedy that is one of the high points of the entertainment. Claude Mathis, who will be 81 years old soon, runs through jokes and routines older than he is, but he does them, baggy pants and all, in the revered traditions of the trade, which at times is a lot of fun. Dexter Maitland, Charley Naples (he does tricks and comedy in the guise of Chaplin), Frank Vohs, plus the nine ''Burley Cuties,'' contribute to the particular flavor of nostalgia that permeates the house. Miss Corio, of course, puts it all into focus. Trip to Nostalgia THIS WAS BURLESQUE, musical satire based on Ann Corio's recollections; production supervised and directed by Miss Corio; musical conductor, Richard De Mone; costumes, Rex Huntington; choreo- graphed by Fred Albee; production manager, Peter H. Russell. Presented by MPI Productions Ltd. At the Princess Theater, 200 West 48th Street. WITH: Ann Corio, Claude Mathis, Tami Roche, Phil Ford, Charlie Naples, Dexter Maitland, Jerry Kurland, Lili Chanel, Frank Vohs, Marilyn Simon, Patrick and the Burley Cuties. Ann Corio, the auburn-haired, green-eyed queen of burlesque whose long-running show, This Was Burlesque, kept alive the art of strippers and the comedy of baggy-pants clowns in the age of the X-rated film, died on March 1 at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. Ms. Corio, a resident of Cliffside Park, N.J., kept her age a closely guarded secret, but was thought to be in her 80s. A survivor of a shapely sisterhood that included Gypsy Rose Lee, Maggie Hart and Georgia Sothern, Ms. Corio lasted long enough to reach the iconic status that enabled her to present the striptease as a put-on. "We emphasize comedy," she said one day in 1976 as she discussed her show, which began Off Broadway in 1962 and continued for at least two decades in various productions, tours and revivals with Ms. Corio as author, director, star and interlocutor. "There is no total nudity. The girls are lovely and artistic, and they're terribly, terribly pretty. "What is called burlesque today isn't that at all. Those girls aren't artists. They just take clothes off, and they don't even do that very well. Burlesque is exactly what it says it is. It's from the Italian word burlare, to satirize, to laugh. That's what we do, and we are not offensive." Those old enough to remember when strippers in burlesque houses were regarded as hot stuff could recall Ms. Corio as a reigning beauty of the East Coast wheel of burlesque houses that extended from Boston to Washington, with many a whistle-stop in between. Her fame won her roles in jungle films like Swamp Woman (1941) and touring stage productions like White Cargo. Of her movies, Ms. Corio said, "Those pictures always made money. I asked for ,000 a week and a percentage and got it, but I didn't know they were going to shoot the movie in six days. They didn't want the movie good. They wanted it Tuesday." As burlesque faded away, Ms. Corio toured in shows like Rain, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and "Once More With Feeling" until she conceived the idea of This Was Burlesque. Ms. Corio was one of 12 children of Italian immigrants from Naples who settled in Hartford, Conn. Her father died when she was young, and, at 16, after working as a dancer, she discovered she could earn more on the burlesque circuit. In addition to her husband, Michael P. Iannucci, she is survived by two sisters, Helen LaRue, of West Hartford, Conn., and Lillian Denote, of Bristol, Conn. This Was Burlesque, billed as a musical satire based on Ms. Corio's recollections, opened at the Casino East Theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan and ran for 1,509 performances before it moved to the Hudson Theater on Broadway and ran for 124 more. Over the ensuing years, numerous productions played across the country from Miami to Las Vegas to San Juan. The last performance was in St. Petersburg in 1991.