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If the hope is that a Fringe show will one day be living and breathing on a Broadway stage, it is quite exciting to think that the “Great White Way” would then be offering up such juicy, audacious and still reverently based material that  SHINE: A Burlesque Musical  showed off in this year’s New York Fringe Festival. This fantastic future cult-classic was thriving with a gritty and legitimate take on New York’s nightlife history, complete with sass, smarts, scandal – and of course, skin. Though, as the NYU liberal arts student Grace notes, while undressing right into an “internship” with the failing, but historic Aristocrat Theater: “its not like strippers, its different.”

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There is the sweetest dichotomy of witnessing the pungent wit of parody, next to the breathtaking allure of the finest glamour in town. There is an unrelenting and gritty appeal to diving headfirst into visceral entertainment, bellowing with sass and verve and a nature so provocative, one simply can’t look away. There is a beckoning of fascinating erudite possibility, which guide and poke and prod and reinvent and always leave you wanting more. This is Burlesque.