Cabaret Burlesque

One good thing about working in France is that you get pretty good perks aside from the salary. My current employer, STMicroelectronics, is quite a traditional French company (or rather, Franco-Italian), and so the perks are particularly good, with plenty of activities available. And there is the Christmas party!

We did the one for adults, obviously (there is one for kids too) - which involved a meal, some semi-nude ladies dancing for us, a magician and a stand-up comedian/voice imitator. Sounds good, eh? (the name of the place - Cabaret Burlesque, sounded rather promising too!)

Things didn't start out too promisingly - the place was hidden away off the beaten path in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, near the motorway exit, the welcome cocktail seemed rather woefully short of alcohol, and the meal was probably heated up in a microwave oven. However, as we had a few glasses of wine, and the show started, we got kind of pulled in by it.

Yes, the voice over comedian guy's jokes were well tacky - but we were pretty impressed with his selection of voice imitations (80's seems to be his speciality). And of course, no complaints from me about lovely young ladies dressing up as nurses  and dancing for us. The magician was pretty good too - mixing humour with some genuinely impressive tricks! And then there was, strangely, a huge lion's head in the car park - no idea who had the idea to put that there!?

We didn't stick around for the dancing, which apparently lasted until 2:30 in the morning - but walked away rather positively surprised and happy!