At the burlesque you will find dancers who know how to dance, carnies who know carnal showmanship, talents who tease, vamps, crooners, cabaret and fire eaters, go-go girls who go, beauty, hacks and grotesquery side by side. It is vital to revel in the kitsch, the overplay, the retrocamp, swingtime goodigoodyness, the dirty carnival, and the conceit of the production. Subscribing to the Buddhismus of excess, at best it has no pretense to art and is therefore in some way deserving of our attentions. Wowstraya needs to recognize it’s burlesque self. Any spark of colour in a desert of beige deserves to be enthusiastically received and cherished before we all disappear up our collective career choices and daily grind. Wintermagic helps with sprinkles of sugar.