Tonight on Lifetime Little Women NY airs with an all new Wednesday, April 8, season 1 episode 3 called, “Burlesque Brawl,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, Jordanna invites Jazmin and the other girls to perform in a burlesque show for her company, Sass N’ Betties.
On the last episode Jason asked Jordanna and Kristin to help him talk to his parents about a sensitive issue. How did Jason’s conservative family take the news? Jordanna confronted Lila because she told Elena about Kristin’s divorce. And later, Dawn landed herself on Misty and Kristin’s bad side when she made catty comments about their new apartment.
On tonight’s episode as per the Lifetime synopsis, “Jordanna invites Jazmin and the other girls to perform in a burlesque show for her company, Sass N’ Betties. Dawn makes her opinions about little people performing clear when she tells Jazmin she shouldn’t dance in the show because it is degrading. Jazmin must choose between furthering her career and pleasing her judgmental sister-in-law.”
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Jordanna asks the group to lunch to bring up an idea. She asks them if they know how to twerk, saying that her company wants to do a little people burlesque show.
Jazmin wants to do this gig as a way to get a start toward her acting dream, but she knows Dawn is not going to improve. The others encourage her to do it for herself, and she agrees.
Lila signs up for a dating site. She says she wants to start everything fresh for the first time, and that she wants a good husband. Jason tells her to tell herself she deserves it.
Jazmin tells David about performing in Jordanna’s burlesque show, worried because he is conservative. He compares burlesque performance to stripping, and asks her if people are going to be throwing money at her. He has her perform for him, and then asks if there will be lap dances. David decides to support her, but can’t go to the show.
The group tries on their costumes and practice their dances for the burlesque show.
Misty leaves the rehearsal early when she receives a phone call, saying it was work. The truth is that her parents and boyfriend are meeting for the first time tonight. She lied to Jordanna because she would never hear the end of it if she told the truth, she says in confessional.
Misty goes to a restaurant with her boyfriend Joe. They have been dating seven months and haven’t said they love eachother yet. Her parents are coming all the way from Louisiana, and she hasn’t introduced anyone to her parents before. She tells him that her dad is tough and protective and her mom asks a lot of questions.
When her parents get to the restaurant, they start asking him questions about himself and his past relationships. Her dad asks him if he’s ever met a little person before, and he says no. Misty says it struck her that he didn’t treat her any differently for being little. Her mom then asks if he didn’t throw her in the trashcan like people did in school.
Joe asks her parents how they felt when they found out their daughter was a little person. Her mom says that she cried, and that the doctor called her a circus child, saying that she was going to die or have to be institutionalized.
Her mother brings up what his intentions are with her, and Misty says that they have been staying at one another’s places if that’s what she’s asking. Her mother then asks if they’ve been “intimate.” An obviously mortified Misty and her dad says that’s enough.
Her father tells her he initially didn’t approve of her coming out to New York City alone, being a young little person, but he’s proud of her. She asks what he thinks of Joe, and he says she made a good choice and that he thinks he’s a very nice guy.
Jason takes Lila to a psychic to help her find Mr. Right. The psychic says she is a sensual, graceful lady. The woman also tells her to connect with nature.
Jazmin tells Lila and Dawn that Jordanna has invited her to do her burlesque show. Dawn asks if she thinks that’s a good impression to make as her first job in New York.
Jazmin says it’s an actual choreographed dance, and Lila asks her if she will be paid for the gig. Jazmin says no. Dawn criticizes her for volunteering to do burlesque in minimal clothing while married. Jazmin says it’s her prerogative and relationship and David is okay with it. Dawn responds that David isn’t acting like a good husband if he’s okay with it.
Dawn says the gimmick is that people think it’s funny to see little people dancing burlesque on the stage. She says Jazmin is making a mockery of herself on stage.
Jazmin says to take the phrase “little people” out of it for a second, and Dawn says she can’t take it out because it’s clear as day she is a little person. Jazmin says she thinks this performance will be empowering little people, and Dawn says being laughed at is not empowering. Lila tells Jazmin she will be at the performance. Jazmin still invites Dawn to the performance, and she says she will see if she can be accommodating to a burlesque little people show.
With two hours until the show, Misty is MIA. She has been flaking all week, Jordanna says in confessional. When she arrives, Jordanna asks her if she thinks it’s fair for everyone else, saying if she knew she wouldn’t be available, she would have found someone else. She says if she wasn’t going to be 100% committed to this, she shouldn’t have done it. Misty lamely apologizes. Jordanna tells her she has a half hour to learn the routine, and they start practicing.
Jazmin tells Jason that if Dawn doesn’t show up, she’s going to be disappointed. Dawn does show up, and proceeds to be pressed the entire time, judging because not many people are there.
After the show, Lila tells Dawn that their bodies look great. Dawn agrees, but she says so does her body, but she keeps hers in her clothes.
When the group comes back to the table, Jason asks if the audience took their performance seriously. Lila says she does think everyone took the performance seriously and it was well done. Dawn calls the performance “cute.” She says she sees where Jordanna was coming from with her company, but it looked like everyone was just bopping along to the same tune. Lila disagrees, saying it was a well-choreographed performance.
Dawn says she has always felt that when a bunch of little people perform together, it becomes like a circus.
Jazmin asks Dawn if she’s embarrassed by this, and she says yes. Dawn says she thinks people’s behavior can elevate the community which makes it
Jordanna says this is about supporting Jazmin, and Dawn says if Jazmin weren’t her family, she probably wouldn’t be there supporting her.
Jazmin says when she was rehearsing, she didn’t feel like a little person, but Dawn is making her feel more like a little person than anything. Dawn says she is a little person, and Jazmin says that’s not the only thing she has to feel like. Dawn repeats that they are all little people.
Jordanna says the show is supposed to be powerful and sexy, and she doesn’t understand Dawn’s issue.
Dawn says little people have been fighting for the last 30 years to get out of these jobs and into the professional realm only for people to go back to it.
The others storm off, irritated with Dawn. Dawn goes up to them and calls Jazmin aside, apologizing if she came off as unsupportive of her. She says she supports her, but not this, calling the show a “joke.” She says there were no big time people in there looking at her, just people gawking at her because she was a half naked little person. Jazmin says it was just a gig for her to try, and Dawn says it didn’t work.
Jordanna approaches and leaves again quickly, but Dawn yells out that the only reason she was on Broadway is because she’s a little person. Jason has to restrain Jordanna from jumping her, and the episode ends with everyone yelling over eachother on the street.
THE END!
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