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The White Elephant Burlesque Society has been a fixture at New Jersey's Wicked Faire events since before either had their name. WEBS members Viktor Devonne, Femme Fae la Butche, Gretchen Violetta, Lilith Lore, and Motk participated in Jeff Mach's precurser to Wicked Faire, the Cult Movie Overnight with appearances and directorship in The Rocky Horror Show adaptations presented there. Motk, Fae, and Dublin O'Shea were involved with the first Wicked Winter Rennaissance Faire event with their interpretation of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Complete Works of William Sheakespeare to great success. When the White Elephant Burlesque Society was given name, one of the first organizers to snatch them up and recommend us to his friends, was Jeff Mach. We have had a great relationship with Jeff Mach, and his associates at Wicked Faire. We can directly connect shows and appearances to our involvement with Wicked Faire and would not have it any other way. Quickly, the sold-out White Elephant Burlesque shows became a staple of Wicked Faire and every year, in match with the theme of the event, WEBS has tailor-writ a largescale theme show. While our variety shows compliment the Big Show every year, the audience has come to expect our take on Wicked Faire's over-arching motif.

Theme Shows 2012: The Dead Sexy Hotel WEBS presents "The Dead Sexy Hotel," through agreement with the Gilman Legacy Foundation. WEBS provides performance art interpretations of the mysterious and spooky goings at the recently refurbished Gilman hotel. This show could not be more perfectly in line with Wicked Faire's theme of Halloween. 2011: Wicked Fairytales In coordination with the event's subject of warped fairytales and fables, Viktor Devonne and Lilith Lore hosted a series of vignettes about the "true" interpretation of a fairytale. We learned of Chicken Little's grassroots political campaigning, Goldilocks' penchant for club-ready bears, Snow White's dangerous vanity, Hansel and Gretal's agile witch friend, and Little Red Riding Hood's dominance over the beastly wolf. In short, no one was left grim by the day's end. 2010: WNDRLND CRNVL Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were re-envisioned as a carnival with White Elephant in the roles of familiar names. Alice became an empowered young woman faced with adversity, lessons, and sensuality gone amok. 2009: The Candyland Brothel "Chocolate Factory" was the topic this year and White Elephant found itself the (possibily fictitious) target of the Townspeople Investigating Treacherous Sexpots for their recent aquiring of the Candyland Brothel, a local chapter of noted depravity in an otherwise pristine hamlet. WEBS began their discourse with a press conference to plead our case, and finished the audience off with a 60-minute ride through the oldest business and its colorful characters. WEBS was humbled to include Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls as our unsuspecting customer. To learn more about Wicked Faire, and where it will be next held, we suggest you peruse the Wicked Faire website.

"I first saw WEB performing at a friend's event. The event was excellent, but WEB absolutely stole the show. I've seen a lot of burlesque in the tri-state area, from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Jersey to Philly, but this was particularly riveting.

The stage awareness and stage presence were simply unmatched; this was a a group for whom burlesque was a theatrical expression of the utmost force. The audience was silent during each song, and overcome with applause at song's end.

I had to ask them to come and perform for one of my own events, and I couldn't wait; I followed them out and asked them on the spot."

- Jeff Mach