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PINCHBOTTOM STUDIO UNCOVERS CLASSIC "PINCH BROTHERS" FILM "The Bawdy House" puts the slap & tickle back in slapstick Friday April 20 & & Saturday April 21 @ 10pm THE PINCH BROTHERS in "THE BAWDY HOUSE" Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church Street, TriBeCa Admission: $15 | Beer & Wine Bar | Tickets: www.pinchbottom.com/tickets/ Dateline: Hollywood. The 1930s. It was the heyday of the Pinchbottom Motion Picture Company, the years when the studio produced their best-known work: the madcap black and white comedies featuring the antics of the vaudevillian troupe THE PINCH BROTHERS (also sisters). The last of these films, entitled "THE BAWDY HOUSE", was so salacious for its time that some consider it singlehandedly responsible for the institution of the Motion Picture Production Code. As described in the original press materials: "THE PINCH BROTHERS (also sisters) are hired to save an ailing legit theater, which they accomplish by converting it into a BAWDY HOUSE, complete with ribald comedy, risqué magic, and of course, burlesque, burlesque, burlesque! But on opening night, everything goes wrong -- buttons keep popping, pants keep dropping, and the schtick keeps getting schtickier. Can Nasto (NASTY CANASTA), Porko (JONNY PORKPIE), and their siblings Basto, Cadabro, Drunko, Gigo, Li'l Brooko, Litto, Naughtio, Neilo, Peeko, Rubo, Rayo, and Tiggo, get through the show with their clothes intact? Nope." THE PINCH BROTHERS in "THE BAWDY HOUSE" was long thought to be lost, every copy of the film destroyed by the newly-formed MPAA, and the Brothers (also sisters) banned from Hollywood, permanently. Porko went on to host the late-night pornographic game show "You Bet Your Ass", Nasto's gambling problem resulted in the loss of all of her clothes, and the rest of the siblings went on to enjoy various degrees of depravity. Film buffs rejoiced, however, when a script of the film was recently discovered in a pile of underwear, allowing Pinchbottom's Sub:Conscious to re-create a live stage version of the cinematic classic that put the slap and tickle in slapstick and the double-entendre in double-takes. See it again (for the first time) on April 20th and 21st. Collective:Unconscious presents Pinchbottom's Sub:Conscious THE PINCH BROTHERS in "THE BAWDY HOUSE" Marx Brothers Burlesque Friday, March 16, 2007 @ 10pm | Admission $15 | hosted by: NASTY CANASTA & JONNY PORKPIE, starring ALBERT CADABRA, ANITA COOKIE, BASTARD KEITH, GIGI LA FEMME, LITTLE BROOKLYN, NAUGHTIA NICE, NEIL O'FORTUNE, PEEKABOO POINTE, PRECIOUS LITTLE, RUBY VALENTINE, SCOTT RAYOW and TIGGER!, Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church Street, TriBeCa | Beer & Wine Bar Tickets at www.pinchbottom.com/tickets/ or by calling TheaterMania.com (212) 352-3101 Made possible, in part, by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with generous support of The September 11th Fund ABOUT PINCHBOTTOM BURLESQUE "BEST BURLESQUE in NY" - New York Magazine's Best of New York 2007 Explore the inner mind of burlesque with 'Pinchbottom's Sub:Conscious.' Each monthly journey centers around a different theme, linking together striptease and variety acts from top performers with a topical narrative... and, believe it or not, a plot. 'Pinchbottom's Sub:Conscious' is where burlesque meets downtown theater, buys it a drink and takes it to bed. Hosted by NASTY CANASTA & JONNY PORKPIE, who should probably not be described at the Lunt-Fontannes of the New York Burlesque scene, although they do perform together with alarming frequency. "Wicked senses of humor" -The Village Voice (A Voice Choice); "Comedy and partial nudity go remarkably well together. Where else can you hoot, whistle, and bust a gut laughing?" -NY Theatre.com; "Hilarious burlesque" -Next Magazine; "Your perverted genre fantasies have come shimmying to life" -Time Out New York

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