The EDL slowly grew into a collection of burlesque costumes and memorabilia. Jennie Lee continued to preserve burlesque history, forming Exotic World museum in Helendale, California.

Marvin, Roberta Montemorra. "Verdian Opera Burlesqued: A Glimpse into Mid-Victorian Theatrical Culture", Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 33–66, Cambridge University Press, accessed 2 February 2011 (subscription required) They have even gone global with a burlesque show in London, Forever Crazy and beyond. Whilst, the secret of their success was shared in their burlesque documentary. Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray! For those who don’t know, we are Burlexe and have live London theatrical burlesque shows. They began in 2011 with a mix of song, story and dance. Abrams, M. H. (1999) A Glossary of Literary Terms. Seventh edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College PublishersWe tell the stories of the women who created the genre and those performing today and we came along just at the right time. Interest in burlesque was mounting and we arrived on the scene in Soho with a string of sold out shows. See 20s Burlesque Dancers to Remember, 30s Burlesque Headline Honeys and 40s Burlesque Burly-Q Queens. Plus our answer to: what is burlesque? Joan Collins wrote in her autobiography, Past Imperfect, “She taught me more about sensuality than I had learned in all my years under contract.” She went onto describe her as, “A down-to-earth girl with an incredibly gorgeous body and an angelic face.”

Following the success of burlesque shows in Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies were launched in New York. They raised vaudeville performances to broadway revues. Tempest Storm was a featured dancer and among her many travels starred in Oakland, California, Las Vegas, Reno and Portland, Oregon. Though, she also had a few burlesque rivalries along the way. As you can see (above) Tempest Storm and Evelyn West were in competition. a b c Schwandt, Erich et al. "Burlesque", Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, accessed 3 February 2011 (subscription required)Allen, Robert Clyde (1991). Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1960-3 Petkovic, John (28 November 2010). "Burlesque: Then and now, a timeline of performers from Lili St. Cyr to Dita VonTeese". www.cleveland.com. The Plain Dealer . Retrieved 7 May 2015. Sanders, Andrew (1994). The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-811201-7 In 17th century Spain, playwright and poet Miguel de Cervantes ridiculed medieval romance in his many satirical works. Among Cervantes' works are Exemplary Novels and the Eight Comedies and Eight New Interludes published in 1615. [10] The term burlesque has been applied retrospectively to works of Chaucer and Shakespeare and to the Graeco-Roman classics. [5]