Wicked City Burlesque Cabaret is at The Red Pavilion with a live rock and pop set that frames burlesque as performance craft rather than nostalgia. The featured performers move between song, striptease, and character work, using the room’s nightclub scale to keep the exchange intimate and direct. In New York City, burlesque has long functioned as both nightlife tradition and a site of argument about labor, gender, and spectacle, and this production sits inside that lineage. Its most telling choice is how plainly it lets the music drive pacing and tone.