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This Pussy Galore Production returned to Brighton Spiegeltent after last year’s sell-out show at the Fringe.

It was cabaret combining Bond girl burlesque and acrobatic circus acts in a light-hearted musical extravaganza.

Songstress host Gracie was the principal act delivering all the singing with her formidable voice as well as a flow of tongue-in-cheek banter. One minute she would be performing a powerful rendition of Diamonds Are Forever, and making three glamourous dress changes, and the next making jokes about her massive hold-in pants, wondering how Shirley Bassey did it.

The evening featured Leah Debrincat’s slinky snake-like dancing and sword spinning along with Cherry Shakewell’s nipple tassle-shaking striptease to Gold Finger.

Gun-spinning Ayesha H, complete with red basque and thigh-high leather boots, titillated with her raunchy whip-lashing.

There was something for everyone, with both male and female performers providing the glamour. Gracie joked about the chauvinistic days of Bond as she embraced both men and women from the audience.

The Brighton audience remained fairly sedate despite encouragement from Gracie to respond with “primal screams”. However the few people picked to go on stage responded gamely.

Finally, Adilson Santos featured as James Bond performing some impressive aerial acrobatics.

Fellow reviewer Tom Locke gave it ***, adding:

Burlesque has resurfaced and survived the initial surge of press interest. Perhaps for a good many in the crowd this was their first exposure?

They stayed with it and whooped when they were asked to whoop without ever really whooping of their own accord.

The compere is vital and this one had neither the wit nor the frocks nor the singing voice to hold things together, keep the pace steady or announce the name of the acts without screaming into the microphone.

The acts were a good variety of circus and burlesque but glamour, humour and titillation were only occasionally glimpsed.

Cherry Shakewell twirled her nipple tassels and made the eyes spin; a lady removed daffodil heads with a whip; but the overall effect was glue and cellotape, it didn't matter how much glitter got sprinkled.

Licenced To Not Thrill, You Only Go Once, somebody could have done it better.