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Jett Adore

American burlesque dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ58495396
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Jett Adore is an American burlesque dancer. He has performed as part of Stage Door Johnnies, Chicago's only all-male burlesque troop. Due to his career success, Adore has been referred to as the Prince of Boylesque and is an inductee of the Burlesque Hall of Fame.

Biography

Jett Adore has a degree in musical theater. Adore dances alongside Ray Gunn and Bazuka Joe in Stage Door Johnnies. The Stage Door Johnnies, founded in 2007, is the only all-male burlesque troop based in Chicago. In 2011 he performed at the New York Burlesque Festival. In 2013 Adore performed in La Divina Productions' show Hotter Then Hell Burlesque at the Kessler Theater in Dallas. In 2014 he was a performer at the Show Me Burlesque Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, the Texas Burlesque Festival, the Helsinki Burlesque Festival in Finland, and the Vienna Boylesque Festival in Austria.

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