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  • For $15, audience members can expect to see a stripped down version of a nun, as well as a female performer in Hitler drag stripping down to her bare essentials in the show-stealing number "High Chancellor."

    PHOTOS: Two Must-See Burlesque Shows In LA Huffington Post 2011

  • An invitation to sing on Jools' 2006 New Year's Eve Hootenanny resulted in a show-stealing performance of Doghouse Boogie, leading to a sell-out UK tour, a Warner contract and several albums.

    Jools Holland: why I'm happy just to play the blues 2011

  • Lowery was featured on a far larger stage four decades later when he delivered a show-stealing prayer at the January 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama: Help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • For $15, audience members can expect to see a stripped down version of a nun, as well as a female performer in Hitler drag stripping down to her bare essentials in the show-stealing number "High Chancellor."

    PHOTOS: Two Must-See Burlesque Shows In LA Huffington Post 2011

  • England will be hoping to persuade prime minister David Cameron, David Beckham and Prince William to make the trip while Sorokin confirmed the Russian bid was still hoping Vladimir Putin would repeat his show-stealing personal appearance that helped secure the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

    England and Russia bid to be different in race for 2018 World Cup Owen Gibson 2010

  • There were, to be sure, a couple of real Wagner voices on stage -- Stephanie Blythe, a force of nature, as Fricka, and Eric Owens in a show-stealing turn as an Alberich who sounded more like Wotan than Wotan often did.

    Going for the Rheingold Anne Midgette 2010

  • And the whole thing is almost capsized by a show-stealing turn from Seun Shote as Antonio.

    Twelfth Night Alfred Hickling 2010

  • Lowery was featured on a far larger stage four decades later when he delivered a show-stealing prayer at the January 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama: Help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • There were, to be sure, a couple of real Wagner voices onstage -- Stephanie Blythe, a force of nature, as Fricka, and Eric Owens in a show-stealing turn as an Alberich who sounded more like Wotan than Wotan often did.

    The Met's 'Das Rheingold': Cast for the simulcast? Anne Midgette 2010

  • Lowery was featured on a far larger stage four decades later when he delivered a show-stealing prayer at the January 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama: Help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

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