Go Ahead, Take a PEEP!

Electrical harpists, bad jokes and 24-ouncers of Pabst Blue Ribbon��what more could you want on a Saturday?

Back-to-School with PEEP!, the latest in the Dog and Pony Show Theater's series of vaudeville-style burlesque revues, includes all three. A troupe of actors, led by the saucy "Miss Pixie," performed the revue last Friday night at Manbites Dog Theater with a decided wink to their sold-out house. The evening of songs, skits, bad jokes, dances and the token striptease fed mostly off the cast's incredible energy, although several jokes, like this clunker, fell flat: "What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? About halfway."

Dog and Pony Show artistic director Lissa Brennan and Duke Theater Studies lecturer Jay O'Berski were particularly noteworthy in a skit about night school--in the course of ten minutes, the pair talked about cows, the merits of tall cans of PBR and deftly argued their points using letters of the alphabet.

Although PEEP! originated in Pittsburgh, its tongue-in-cheek flavor sits well in any region--if nothing else, you'll leave with more blonde jokes than you'll ever cared to tell.