Lucky Devil Burlesque - Metromix Los Angeles

(Credit: Bradford Rogne) Take your pants off. Now get on all fours, strap on a horsetail and gallop to the music.Congratulations! You’ve got what it takes to be a dancer at Lucky Devil—the new man-on-man show at Forty Deuce that turns watching dudes getting sweaty in little more than a jockstrap into high art.No surprise, the crowd at Lucky Devil comprises mostly young, hip, gay men, with a couple of “If These Walls Could Talk 2”-esque lesbian couples and the odd hetero dude sticking out like a sore, straight thumb [cough, cough]. Forty Deuce kingpin Ivan Kane was front and center at the opening night performance, enjoying every sweaty minute of the show in a roped-off VIP section. Not far behind him sat burlesque artist and real-life pinup Dita Von Teese, once a dancer at the club herself, who revealed that she “preferred being a spectator rather than dancing," because of the club's perilously narrow catwalk. We nabbed a seat at the horseshoe-shaped bar, which doubles as the stage (our server warned us to “watch out for flying objects” – gross!), though as the night progressed it became clear that standing is optimal for maximum crotch-eye synchronicity.As soon as the lights turn low, the fog machine starts up, and the ear-splittingly loud sound system pumps out Britney, vintage Destiny’s Child, and George Michael (is it officially a gay burlesque without a chorus of "Father Figure"?), the crowd goes wild. Just then, Lucky Devil's two performers take the stage—one the spitting image of Chris Kattan in full-on Mango mode, down to the gold lamé short shorts, the other a McDreamy/McSteamy lovechild who wows the crowd with his impressive acrobatic skills, hanging upside down from the rafters and swinging from a chain above the bartenders' heads. This definitely ain’t your mama’s gay burlesque show.The show is a boat-load—or at least a gay cruise-load—of fun, kind of like the best bachelorette party you've never been to. It's broken down into three acts, with a hal...