In a moment of idle curiosity, I googled "British Blondes", and came up with this page about their leading light, Lydia Thompson.

Fascinating stuff. I think it's got the makings of a great show. Here is an extract:

Within nights, Lydia Thompson became the unquestioned burlesque queen of her period, leading her company of `British Blondes' (several of whom were not one or the other) around the country playing pieces such as Ixion, The Forty Thieves, Bluebeard, Aladdin, Robin Hood, Kenilworth, Mephisto, Lurline, Sinbad, La Sonnambula, Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, a burlesque La Princesse de Trébizonde and Pippin (ie Byron's Rumpelstiltskin).

If the blondes' trademarks were short trunks and shapely thighs, many of them were, however, by no means devoid of talent and several, including Pauline Markham, Alice Atherton, Camille Dubois, Carlotta Zerbini, Eliza Weathersby, Alice Burville and Rose Coghlan went on to fine careers.

From the male members of her company emerged such top comic talents as Willie Edouin and Lionel Brough. Nevertheless, the company thrived on a slightly scandalous reputation which Lydia and her managers fostered finely, winning nationwide publicity with the tales of her `lesbian attacker' and of her public horsewhipping of the ungentlemanly proprietor of the Chicago Times who had published a piece reflecting on the virtue of the 'blondes'.