All photos taken by Quentin Thwaites for The Dandies annual Movember fundraiser, Close Shave2: The Next Generation.

Performers

Quick tune up before the fun starts

The audience loving Debs&Errol

Debs of DebsandErrol sings a lovely parody

Hilarious Fratwurst sketch with electric results

Brandon Ash-Mohammed makes us wonder about so many funny things

Bianca Boom Boom gives her best impression of a Spock body rock

Fratwurst holds moral court on the back wall curtain

Errol plays Tribble muppet master while Debs tries to continue the song

Fratwurst – balloon relationships are serious

Fratwurst try to console each other over their birth names

Errol creates some Tribble Trouble

Fratwurst is about to get up close and personal

Spock knew how to shock with this move from Bianca Boom Boom

Errol falls over under the weight of the Tribble lovefest

Brandon Ash-Mohammed delights the audience

Debs carries on while Errol carries on

Brandon Ash-Mohammed throws some zingers at the audience

Debs, of DebsandErrol, attempts to sing Tribbles while Errol attempts to throw every Tribble at her

Red Herring has Tribble Troubles

Wordburglar cheers The Dandies and Close Shave

Red Herring weighs her Tribble Trouble options

Wordburglar gets the audience involved in the chorus

Debs wonders how long before Errol starts the Tribble assault

Spock (aka Bianca Boom Boom) realizes that it is logical to party

The onslaught continues

Wordburglar shared his rhythm and style with the audience

Debs and Errol adopt some Tribbles post show

The onslaught continues

Raffle Winners

The Dandies pick the nerdbiskit raffle winner

Dwayne Harmer walks away happier and more show-passy

The first raffle winner gets a MAC cosmetics prize pack

Devin Melanson (Copy Red Leader) picks up a copy of Red Squirrel from Poorman Comics

The 50-50 winner donated his winnings back to Movember Canada. He deserves a high-ten

50-50 tickets flew out of Ensign Alan Leightizer’s hands

Winner of a set of Squaracter images

The Dandies choose the next raffle prize and winner

Happy winner of the nerdbiskit prize pack

Ensign Alan translates “arms length of tickets” into Klingon

redshirt Zach makes off with a Silver Snail gift pack

Nerdbiskit raffle prize winner walks away happy

The Dandies proudly reveal the winner of a copy of Red Squirrel from Poorman Comics

The MAC cosmetic prize pack winner has a secret

The Dandies wait with baited breath for Ensign Alan to reveal the fifty-fifty results

Proud winner of the Dark Comedy Festival tickets to see Robert Kelly

Happy winner of show passes

Dale is rendered speechless while drawing a raffle winner

Other

An audience member takes a moment to admire the Black Swan decor

Ralph MacLeod queues up burlesque music

Genmo Movember 2013 – Close Shave audience in rapt awe

The GenMo audience takes in a relatively serious moment at Close Shave

Andie speaks to the audience post burlesque and Dale eats his lip in anticipation

The Dandies pose post show

The engagement rings. She said yes a thousand times. He owes 998 more rings.

Em Modd made these tasty treats for us

Happy couple is happy, post proposal

People look over the multitude of silent auction items

Redshirt Zach shows off his raffle ticket delivery system. Clockwork Seven O’Clock of Nine prepares a steampunk away party.

GenMo audience having a great time at Close Shave

Two Mo’Sistas congratulate Dale on a successful event

Andie says yes to Dale’s Very Dandy Proposal

Andie finds out that Dale IS a little teapot

Dale gets ready to make his move post proposal

Creator of the glowing mug, Devin Melanson (from Copy Red Leader), proudly goes where no audience member has gone before

Em Modd with her creations!

Post proposal cheers

The audience loving Debs&Errol

Dandies and Alan Leightizer (and Zach Mealia)

Classic Star Trek fight in slow motion

The Dandies watch as the redshirts fight for the honour to die first

The Dandies thwarting the Tribble horde one lick at a time

The Dandies wait with baited breath for Ensign Alan to reveal the fifty-fifty results

The Dandies have had enough of redshirt Zach’s shenanigans

The Captain has odd demands for securing his ship

The Dandies bring volunteer redshirt Zach to the stage to the chagrin of Ensign Alan

The Dandies see eye-to-eye while Ensign Alan plays League of Legends