While in Las Vegas, it’s hard to resist one of the new modernized burlesque shows. But if you go to “Fantasy” at the Luxor, you’re in for an unexpected surprise. Comedic impressionist and performer Sean E. Cooper pop ups between costume and set changes, entering suddenly at first with a James Brown impression emphasizing the Godfather of Soul’s sometimes unintelligible speech.
Cooper is self-effacing, remarking “I bet you’re wondering what’s going on here and where have all the girls gone,” but gets the audience on his side very quickly with other impressions throughout the show, especially of Tina Turner and of Michael Jackson. And in both of these he teases the lucky guy who was picked from the audience to romp onstage with the girls, flirting while in drag as Turner and crotch-grabbing as Jackson while remarking about him.
It takes a great performer for you not to mind that the girls in a show like this are offstage, but Cooper pulls it off.
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