We all received a thick packet describing the show and were there for several hours to decide which numbers we could make work and which would need adjusting or cutting. The key personnel from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (the landlord), Base Entertainment (the producer), and the Creators/Artists represented by Channing Tatum, Alison Faulk, their assorted team members, and the general contractor whose name I am having trouble remembering.

I had just turned in my employee badge at the M Resort and was driving to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for my first official obligation – a meeting inside the former basement nightclub, O ld English, for a Magic Mike Live meeting. The dancing though was fantastic! Applause to Alison Faulk!įast forward to APR 2016. Ok, the storyline was meh, but so are most dance movies. I had seen Channing in “ Step Up,” so I knew he could dance, but seeing these two movies, loosely inspired by his life as a male stripper while living in Tampa, FL, were not half bad. It was not until I accidentally ran across a clip of “ Lip Sync Battle” with Channing Tatum doing Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” and Jenna Dewan ( his then wife) doing Ginuwine’s “Pony” with choreography from Magic Mike that I thought … it might be worth watching the movies. So when the movie Magic Mike and later Magic Mike XXL came out with Channing Tatum, I passed on seeing either movie. It was the first and last time I went to that particular club. I was coerced into going to one of the male strip clubs with one of my female friends in a trade-off that we would head to a real dance club afterward. My first exposure to a Male Strip Club was in Houston, TX, around age 18. They stand and pose and flex their muscle. Being a classicly trained ballet dancer and probably in the 95th if not 99th percentile when it comes to dancing ability and know-how, my biggest complaint about male “ dance” shows is that they are NOT dancing. I’m not too fond of strip shows-female or male.

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