Though the title Treme refers to a specific faubourg — a French word meaning suburb — the show’s locations are varied. They include the French Quarter, where viewers will encounter a young couple busking for tourists; the sleazy bars and strip clubs of Bourbon Street; and the posh Garden District, where a white liberal couple — she is a public interest lawyer and he is an English professor at Tulane University — live with their precocious teenage daughter, who resents being sent to boarding school in Baton Rouge.
According to locals, the lawyer character Toni Bernette (played by Melissa Leo; John Goodman plays her husband) is clearly based on Mary Howell, a well-known veteran defender of civil rights in a city with a reputation for police misconduct and official corruption. It is said all the main fictional characters are based on real people, and the show also features well-known musicians playing themselves, among them jazz legends Kermit Ruffins and Alain Toussaint.

“Aside from retro burlesque reviews, has live music accompanied a Bourbon Street stripper in decades?”

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