“Somewhere between a striptease and a variety show, Pretty Things celebrates the same bar-friendly culture crystallized in movies such as “Chicago” and “Cabaret” with one key difference: It’s real, and happening right in front of your eyes.”
“Picture the women of AMC’s Mad Men taking their clothes off to swing music, and you have the basic idea of The Pretty Things Peepshow.”
“Basically, the Pretty Things Peepshow is strippers, swords and rock ‘n’ roll all in one place. Wednesday night doesn’t get much better.”
“Pretty Things—a show featuring pin-up girls who strut their sexual prowess and entertainers who embrace the odd, the fanciful and the adventurous. Better yet, they’ve gone back to the days of Vaudeville, taking it to the road.”
“For anyone who’s a sucker for Bettie Page, whose dreamgirl is Dita Von Teese this is a night to leave home your rockabilly records. Cuz the Pretty Things Peepshow is comin’ town! This is burlesque, vaudeville and sideshow at its best.”
“When the Pretty Things Peepshow comes to town, audiences get a good old-time vaudeville act, combining burlesque with sideshow feats. Somehow it’s retro, almost old-fashioned, but still hip and sexy.”
“While all burlesque relies on the power of the unexpected, the traveling Pretty Things Peepshow has a fishnetted leg up on other troupes — if only because the girls are trained in several types of circus arts, not just one”
“Though today's circus has gone to the dogs (well, more like the kids...friggin' creepy clowns), acts like the Pretty Things Peep Show have revived the earlier traditions of stage magic, "freak" acts like fire eating and walking on glass and, of course, Gypsy Rose Lee style burlesque.”
“The last time the Pretty Things burlesque show came to Nocturnal, it was to bump and to grind and to perform amazing feats of skill and courage to electrify a crowd searching in nightlife's neon glow for a little something special that they can't get at home.”
“The perfect woman does in fact exist. She goes by the name, Go-Go Amy.”
“Seriously, all nine or 10 acts were executed well. This is no cheesy strip act. Every number was creative and tantalizing. It was all sweetness and tease with a touch of humor, ending in a quick pastie peek as they”
“Featuring full-costume, short-skit, in-good-fun stripping by real-bodied women skilled in the art of tease, [their] performance was fun at its finest.”