Miss Mina Murray

The following are popular selections from Miss Mina's extensive repetoire of burlesque acts:

April March Tribute

Music: "April's Blues" by Aries and Dave D'Arango (6:26)
Colors: Red

A tribute to April March, The First Lady of Burlesque.

Stage set: a bench prop to be set upstage of center, a "catcher" to take the pieces of costume as they are removed.

Special:
* The costume is a replica of one of April March's few remaining outfits, with meticulous attention to detail. MIss Mina has done all the construction and beadwork herself .

* The prop was inspired by  the one April March used for her stocking removes. As the original is long gone, this one was designed and built using photographs provided from Miss March's private collection.

* The music is a song called "April's Blues", which written exclusively for April March in the 1960s by a Canadian composer named Aries. She provided the sheet music and  jazz musician Dave D'Aranjo created and recorded a new arrangement just for this act.

Read more about the creation of this act here!

By Any Other Name

Music: "La Vie en Rose" by Louis Armstrong (3:26)
Colors: Red and green

Follow Miss Mina on a parasol-twirling promanade down the Champs-Élysées. Her award-winning rose costume is dazzling in its attention to detail. The final reveal is a perenial crowd pleaser.

Stage set: none

Special: can be performed with a chorus line of back-up dancers
In venues with the capability, act can end with a rose-petal drop.

Champagne on Ice

Music: "The Exciting Life" by Julie London and "Big Town" by Laurindo Almeida & The Danzaneros (5:13)
Colors: Black, crystal

Miss Mina indulges in a bottle of champagne, but she prefers the ice!

Stage set: chairs, low table, and couch, bench or armchair


Come to My Room

Music: "My Room" by Earl Okin (4:14)

Miss Mina's signature song. A sultry fan dance with two variations. Miss Mina uses her custom-made ostrich feather fans.

Version 1:

Colors: Black and white

An elegant dance with fans.

Stage set: none

Requirements: assistant to remove Miss Mina's gown

Version 2:
Colors: Blue and gold

Miss Mina appears in a dramatic blue satin and gold lace robe with a six-foot train. After retiring behind a screen, she undresses in silhoutte, then emerges with fans. The final removes are done again in silhouette.

Stage set: paper screen, back light, fans to be preset

Special: Miss Mina enters through the audience; center front stairs onto the stage are needed.



Fan Dance

Miss Mina has an number of fan dances to a variety of music, including:

  • "Harlem Nocturne" by Sam Tailor and His All Star Jazz Band (3:00)
  • "Sugar Rum Cherry" by Duke Ellington (3:08)
  • "In Pain In Paris" by Four Piece Suit (4:38)
  • "Some River in Europe" by The Brian Setzer Orchestra (4:27)
  • "Green Onions" by Booker T. & the MG's (2:55)
  • "Jezebel" by Frankie Laine (3:14) or Edith Piaf (3:08)
  • "Toccata und Fuge in D Minor" attributed to J.S. Bach (3:38)
  • "Suicide Scherzo" by Wendy Carlos (3:08)

Mackie Messer

Music: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Ute Lemper (3:15)
Colors: Black, red

Miss Mina takes you to a smoky cabaret for a deadpan act to the German version of "Mack the Knife". Featured in The Wrathskellar.

Stage set: chair

Minnie the Moocher

Music: "Minnie the Moocher" by Cab Calloway (3:25)
Colors: Red

A flirty dance with a fan. The audience will be singing along!

Stage set: none


Hard Boiled

Music: "Peter Gun Theme" by The Blues Brothers (3:49)
Colors: Black and white

Miss Mina, as a bumping, grinding film noir detective, strips out of men's clothing.

Stage set: none