At the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai he is mistaken for part of the floor show.
For all the eroticism of the floor shows, most people danced alone, which is in the nature of the hyperkinetic music.
After his first number, "Dammit Janet," he changed seamlessly from the tux into a tan jacket outfit, then a lab coat, then a blue robe, then fishnets for the floor-show finale.
As guests chomped through the second course (lobster, quail, escargot and rabbit) the lights dimmed for a floor show complete with dry ice, space costumes, a flaming-baton twirler and a dance involving people dressed as teacups and a samovar.
"They were looking for supporting acts for a Factory Floor show in Montreal, and apparently they searched Bandcamp for Montreal bands and found us," explains Guerineau.
Half of the façade at the Tatiana Grill, a Russian dinner club renowned for its provocative floor show, was bowed to the ground.
For a big group, try the National, a Russian nightclub in Brighton Beach, for the "garish but always enteraining floor show," says Ellen Freudenheim, the author of "Brooklyn!
Traditionally, the company is known for Moulin Rouge-type floor shows, all feathers and sequins and, for those women playing men, slicked back Teddy Boy hair – and so this production of Chicago is something of a departure.
