Swing With the Land of the Sweets

This winter holiday season is not solely for the cutie-pie kiddies and the tiny tots. Hedonistic holidays come naturally, for isn’t this time of year all about pleasure and excess? So why not swing with the land of the sweets, as it were?

For it’s time for an adult version of the Nutcracker, dear hedonists: try The Land of the Sweets: the Burlesque Nutcracker. Held at The Triple Door pretty much all this month until Christmas, this fifth anniversary season of one beautifully bawdy “ballet” – brought to us by burlesque goddess Lily Verlaine and charming host Jasper McCann – runs from December 9th through to the 24th (with no shows December 10th, 13th, and 19th). Your Hedonista recently attended a show as media and was very impressed … especially with the ladies who could twirl those tassels bedecked upon their nipple pasties both clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time, one per breast. Feeling adventurously amorous? You can even take home a bejeweled pair of panties or a pair of pasties of very your own at the gift shop.

Ticket prices range from $28 (in advance) to $32 (at the door), with an opportunity to order food and beverages for the prices listed on their various menus (I purchased a tall glass of hot buttered rum ($10) and an order of panko prawns (6 for $12) from the upstairs kitchen of Wild Ginger. Although the cocktail could have been more buttery, the prawns were perfect.) Beverages ($9) include the appropriately thematic snowflake’s kiss (Rémy Martin, crème de cacao, cream, and nutmeg), sugar plum, special cocktail #1 (Cointreau, cranberry, and lemon), rat king’s elixir (Metaxa Five Star Brandy, Cointreau, orange, and lemon), arabian dancer (Famous Grouse Scotch, Cherry Heering, sweet vermouth, and orange), and clara and fritz (Cointreau and Rémy Martin).

This is not the Nutcracker from your childhood, but rather one that’s all grown up … and lookin’ goood stuffed in those stockings, if you get my meaning, dear hedonists!

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