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Carroll, a three-year "Broadway Bares" veteran who appeared as a scantily-clad Prince Charming during the show's finale, said. "As a performer now, to look back on that era...you just want to do anything you can to put an end to it, in an homage to the people who have gone before you."

If the chiseled cast of "Broadway Bares XXII: Happy Endings" taught us anything, it's that life isn't just a cabaret, old chum, but a sexy storybook as well.  Over 200 of the Great White Way's most able-bodied actors and dancers donned corsets, fishnets, G-strings and other outré accessories to put a burlesque spin on some of the world's most beloved fairy tales, from "Sleeping Beauty" to "Puss in Boots," on the stage of New York's Roseland Ballroom. From the sparkling pasties adorning Snow White's bosom as she cavorted with ribald dwarfs to a Pinocchio whose swelling appendages included more than just his wooden nose, these tales definitely weren't meant for kids.

The dazzling numbers ranged from a Bollywood-meets-Cirque du Soleil take on "Aladdin" starring three gravity-defying aerialists, to a camped-up retelling of "Rapunzel," which starred famed drag queen Lady Bunny as an off-her-rocker beautician who snipped ruthlessly at the flowing tresses of backup dancers to a spirited mash-up of Lady Gaga's "Hair" and Nicki Minaj's "Turn Me On." 

More scintillating, still, was "The Pied Piper," in which a hunky, kilt-clad ensemble finally answered the age-old question of what a Scotsman wears beneath his kilt (pairs of multicolored and easily-discarded briefs, in this case)

"Goldilocks and the Bears," which saw its hapless blond chorus boy (Andy Mills, currently starring in Broadway's "Memphis") stripped nearly nude while being pawed by a hirsute "bear" pack, before being hoisted above the crowd in a net and straddled by one particularly friendly "grizzly."

Mills Described his Performance as "Extremely Nerve-Wracking, but also Very Liberating...It Feels so Great to be That Expressive."