8th Annual MENORAH HORAH Set for Highline Ballroom, 12/14

Sunday, December 14 at the Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th Street, NY, NY). The doors open at 6PM and the show begins at 7:30PM. Admission is $20 in advance and $25 at the door; VIP seating is $30 in advance and $35 at the door.

Celebrate eight dreidel-spinning nights of Hanukkah in one special evening of music, laughs, latkes and burlesque. The world-class Schlep Sisters - Minnie Tonka and Darlinda Just Darlinda - are joined by premier burlesque stars Little Brooklyn, Fancy Feast, Zoe Ziegfeld, Cherry Pitz, and Broadway Brassy! DJ Momotaro will make you shake your moneymaker, while host Jonny Porkpie will keep you laughing until your candles burn out. All that fun, for just a little gelt. ?Whether you're a yeshiva bocher, an honorary Jew, or a bacon-loving while heeb, THE 8th ANNUAL MENORAH HORAH will titillate and inspire your holiday spirit.

THE SCHLEP SISTERS are burlesque performers of the Jewish persuasion! Minnie Tonka and Darlinda Just Darlinda are long lost sisters who found each other while tracing the roots of Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville on the Lower East Side. Inspired by Manischewitz, The Barry Sisters, and Rock n' Roll these ladies can cut a rug! The Schlep Sisters have been livin' it up on stage together and captivating audiences across North America since 2004. The Schlep Sisters were both voted into the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2010-2013 and were founding members and stars of Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go-Go!, the USA's Premier National Touring Burlesque Troupe! From the New York, Toronto, Florida, and Dallas Burlesque Festivals to the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, the Key West Burlesque Holiday Extravaganza, and their 2012 Australian tour, these sassy sisters have so much love they schlep it all over the world!

International burlesque star MINNIE TONKA is known as "The One Woman Riot" and her theatrical, inventive, and flirtatious striptease has been dazzling audiences across the globe since 2004. Minnie is a multiple-time New York Burlesque Festival Golden Pastie Award Winner and was voted #14 in the Top International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2013. Her lusty hilarity has graced the stages of the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, the Toronto, Vancouver, and Minneapolis Burlesque Festivals, to name a few. She has Headlined several festivals including the Dallas, Iowa, Florida, and Stockholm Burlesque Festivals. Minnie is a sought after burlesque performer and teacher and has toured the world, performing to packed houses in Australia, Italy, England, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and across North America.

The Village Voice calls DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA a "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza" and she has been working as a Burlesque Performer and Producer since 2003. Darlinda co-produced the monthly Bushwick Burlesque show. Darlinda performed with Taylor Mac in The Lily's Revenge (Obie) and The 29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival at Lincoln Center. Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque and BurlyCon and also teaches internationally. The Sundance Channel made Darlinda a "Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe," she was voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011, 2012 and 2013! Darlinda is the recipient of the Golden Pastie Award for The Most Innovative and Creative and The Brooklyn Nightlife Award Winner for Best Burlesque Dancer! USA Today says, "It's hard to top Darlinda."

Hosted by:

JONNY PORKPIE, The Burlesque Mayor of New York City, regular candidate for "actual" mayor of NYC, creator of Pinchbottom Burlesque, the "Best Burlesque" in NY (New York Magazine, The Village Voice) which produced the Off-Broadway shows "The Pinch Brothers in The Bawdy House" as part of MarxFest in May 2014, and "Pretençión: un cirque de burlesque, un burlesque de cirque" in 2013. A Pastor at the Church of Titillation, her is also the creator of Dead Sexy and international bump and grind gameshow Grab My Junk, author of The Corpse Wore Pasties, burlesque performer, teacher, and host, and all-around fool.