“What goes around, comes around,” or so goes the old saying that amply describes the town of Jim Thorpe’s flirting with neo-burlesque, a revival of the entertainment circuit that was once the draw of the Mauch Chunk Opera House. Among the entertainers who cut their teeth in burlesque were comics, singers and dancers like: Abbott and Costello, Milton Berle, Fanny Brice, W.C.

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A strip down memory lane in Jim Thorpe (Times News)