Chatting with Miss Lily Verlaine, ballet-trained burlesque artist extraordinaire, two things become instantly clear. First, she and her partner, Jasper McCann, have exceptional phone voices. Seriously, these folks should moonlight (daylight?) on FM radio. Second, they're about to give Oly one hell of a show.

They've reimagined Lewis Carroll's 1871 classic, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, into a scantily-clad extravaganza worthy of Radio City Music Hall. "We tried to take what we could from Burlesque Nutcracker and improve it," Verlaine says, referring to the duo's 2005 Triple Door production (aka Land of the Sweets). They began the whimsical writing process while crisscrossing America. "We took a 6,500-mile road trip and read the Carroll text to each other. ... The dialogue is so nonsensical and interesting."

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[Capitol Theater, Through the Looking Glass, Oct. 23, 8:30 p.m., $15, 206 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia, 360.754.5378]