A T...T H E
The original "I LOVE PARIS" flyer
Not long after SEDUCTION ended our weekly nights at Club 5, the club was sold to a new owner who wanted to reinvent the venue into a live music destination with limited number of regular club nights. As the concept came together they approached us to create a new theme to be their flagship night. Having done the fetish lifestyle theatre for years before hand we decided to create a night of entirely new shows that focused much more on the theatrical side of our previous performances rather than the standard "whips and chains" of the more predictable fetish shows. The night was dubbed "THE GALLERY" and each month a theme would be chosen that the cast would create a series of shows around and perform each Saturday of the month. The shows were half rehearsed and half improv to keep each night entertaining even if you'd seen it the week before. We enlisted the talents of SEDUCTION main stage performer Blixx who (for The Gallery purposes) went under the pseudonym Moxi Laune to write the stage shows and gather a troupe together. With Moxi at the helm and his new cast Bijou LeRoux, Slint Mandrake, Mina Malaise, Gabriel Hollow and Rufus Lefae, the Marquee stage saw some of the most avant garde and inventive stage shows to date in Jacksonville. The first months theme was "I LOVE PARIS." Huge stage sets were built including a 20' Eiffel Tower that lit up to adorn the stage behind the costumed performers. Everything was set and the massive advertising campaign was under way. Unfortunately the opening date for The Marquee's flagship night was the Saturday after the 9.11 tragedy. We toughed it out for the next three weeks and put on some amazing vignette shows the likes of which Jacksonville had never seen, but realized that in the fallout from this national tragedy the nightlife climate had changed signaling the steep decline in the popularity of the age of the mega-club. The GALLERY night closed, but the SEDUCTION cast continue to perform together.
Below are rare scenes from Moxi Laune's original performance "Venus Flytrap" from The Gallery's "I LOVE PARIS" theme night.
