STARTING TONIGHT: The Seven Deadly Seas: Stowaways & Sellouts

The Gazela isn't your run-of-the-mill handsomely aged boat.

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STARTING TONIGHT: The Seven Deadly Seas: Stowaways & Sellouts

POSTED: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 11:00 AM
Filed Under: Arts Theater

The Gazela isn’t your run-of-the-mill handsomely aged boat. You could blame its current acclaim on the fact that the Penn’s Landing legend is the oldest wooden tall ship still sailing in American waters. But seafaring status such as the Gazela’s certainly owes something to its occasionally visiting (and performing) bustier-and-fishnet wearing dignitaries from Philadelphia’s Seven Deadly Seas. That’s the crack team of burlesque locals (Peekaboo Revue’s Melissa “Bang-Bang” Forgione, Shoshanna Ruth, Kimberlie Cruse and Christine Fisler) and gypsy music practitioners (led by Jay Purdy and Sarah Lawson) that gather aboard the Gazela to act out strip-and-peels (in PG, not X fashion) and sing sea shanties with a pirate theme. There’s always a variation on that buccaneering theme (this season it’s corporate panty raiding) and, of course, the run of Stowaways & Sellouts, runs coincidentally with Sept. 19’s “Talk like a Pirate Day.”

Starts tonight, Thu., Sept. 13, 9 p.m. Runs through Sept. 23, $15-$25, The Gazela, Penn's Landing, Columbus Blvd and Market St.

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