Tijuana SweetCakes leads “Cirque de Ole!” at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret through Sept. 26. Photo from lannies.com.
If “Cirque de Ole!” sounds like a Latin musical revue with a showy, burlesque edge, well… that’s because it is (dang, you’re smart). Running at 11 p.m. on Friday nights through Sept. 26, the variety show is led by Kim Franco’s Tijuana SweetCakes, a veritable cabaret supergroup with Dario Rosa on guitar and others familiar to the nightclub revival scene.
Like some mix of Calexico, DeVotchKa and your neighbor’s garage band, SweetCakes presents a “unique mishmash of old timey blues, Latin, country, lounge and mariachi” to get you on your feet. “It’s a show AND a band,” host venue Lannie’s declares on its website, “as in costumes, schtick, humor, puppets, rapport with audience, (and a) burlesque dancer or two.”
Sounds like a sensory overload. Who’s in?
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