When was burlesque movie filmed

Peter Gallagher Vince as Vince. Kristen Bell Nikki as Nikki. Stanley Tucci Sean as Sean. Dianna Agron Natalie as Natalie. Terrence Jenkins Dave as Dave. Chelsea Traille Coco as Coco. Tanee McCall Scarlett as Scarlett. Tyne Stecklein Jesse as Jesse. Paula Van Oppen Anna as Anna. Isabella Hofmann Loretta as Loretta. More like this.

Watch options. Storyline Edit. The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically.

Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue. Drama Music Musical Romance. Rated PG for sexual content including several suggestive dance routines, partial nudity, language and some thematic material.

Did you know Edit. Trivia The photo of seven-year-old Ali with her mother is actually a photo of a much younger Christina Aguilera with her real-life mother, Shelly Kearns. Goofs You can hear feedback when Ali is onstage and Nikki sabotages the mixing console. You can not create feedback by disconnecting the inputs. Feedback is usually caused by microphones, and since the dancers were supposed to be lip-syncing at this point, the microphones on stage would not be live to create feedback anyway.

Quotes Sean : [from trailer] So, is Ali short for anything? Crazy credits The credits play over a background of the stage set from the final scene "Show Me How to Burlesque" dance number. Connections Edited into 5 Second Movies: Burlesque User reviews Review. Top review. Almost Bob Fosse. The musical numbers reminded me of "Sweet Charity" and the camera moves around the Kit Kat Klub style room like Fosse's camera did in "Cabaret" The similarities stop there.

The film is a brave attempt but the writing walks a very, very thin line. Was Steve Antin trying to be funny? Some of the lines were received with loud guffaws and there is no way to know if that was the intention because, personally, I felt like cringing.

Never mind. It was fun. Christina has a powerful voice but not film presence and Cher is a fearless icon but she had so little to show for it. The best performance is, without question, by Stanley Tucci. The songs work at the moment you're watching them being performed but I couldn't hum a tune now, 48 hours later, for the life of me.

So, I was entertained and in the big scheme of things, I guess that's enough. FAQ 1. How many songs are left out of the soundtrack? Details Edit.

Release date November 24, United States. United States. Both the staircase and the parking lot where Cher and Kristen Bell get into a fight are real, and are on the north side of the building. Even that arched, wrought-iron sign is real but not the neon name. De Mille, and was known as the Vine Street Theatre. In the 's, it was renamed The Huntington Hartford Theatre.

In the '60s, it became the Doolittle Theatre. Here's a Google Streetview panorama of the building. Remember the first hotel that Ali stays at when she arrives in L.

The one where she hides her money in the toilet tank and later returns to find it stolen? When she looks out the hotel window, she see's Grauman's Chinese Theatre right across the street.

So it's on Hollywood Blvd, right? This is actually the Hotel Rosslyn , located at W. The fake view of Grauman's was probably really shot from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel , which is right across the street from Grauman's, and which somewhat resembles the Rosslyn.

Built in , the Rosslyn was a prime hotel in the 's, but by the 60's had degenerated into a skid row dump. In , they renovated the old hotel and turned it into "The Rosslyn Lofts". The hotel has appeared in a number of other Hollywood productions, such as "No Ordinary Family", "Life on Mars" and "Moonlight", and even had the starring role in a lesser-known Mel Gibson movie, "Million Dollar Hotel".

Here's a Google StreetView panorama of the hotel. In a later scene, 'Jack' Cam Gigandet gets into a long-distance fight with his old girlfriend, Natalie, during a wedding party , in a very opulent setting that may remind some of a Catholic church. The reason is that it was a Catholic church. In fact, it was the main Cathedral of Los Angeles for over years.

This used to be Saint Vibiana's Cathedral , located at S. Main Street , in downtown Los Angeles. However, the section of the city where it stood eventually became part of Skid Row. And when the church was damaged by earthquakes, they gave up on it. The Church built a new, modern Cathedral nearby, and shame on them tried to tear down the beautiful old Cathedral.

Fortunately, after many protests, the historic building was saved.