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Word on the street has it that the building is being sold, but whatever the reason, beauties from Rio and Montreal together with homegrown American lads danced their last dance and will have to move on. Caribbean Life. Landmark costume exhibition on Ballroom culture ArtsWestchester Gallery.

Each weekday featured a shift of dancers and on weekends the shift doubled. Everybody was comfortable with their illusions, and the dimly-lit hall made it all seem real. Best of all, real friendships were made at the Gaiety. Gaiety lore had it that Patrick Swayze once graced the boards as a dancer and that Shirley MacLaine had been sighted in the audience.

The Saturday night crowd of old-timers became club-like and people got together outside of the theater. More from Around NYC. Brooklyn Paper. And everybody buzzed about the visits of Madonna who was said to come there to recruit dancers for her productions. Then the cycle repeated itself.

Shows, if you want to call them that, began in the morning and continued into the small hours. Gay New York s and 80s | Gaiety Theatre ( - photo taken by me) on W Public group 󰞋 47K Members Gregg Jasper Gay New York s and 80s Oct 2, 󰞋󱟠 󰟝 Gaiety Theatre ( - photo taken by me) on W.

46th Street, right next to Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and across the street from the Helen Hayes Theatre and the 46th Street Theatre showing The Best. The final evening at Gaiety was not without its sad moments. Grinding in their scanties before an audience of mostly older men, with a sprinkling of younger, married-looking stockbroker types in suits and ties and the odd female or two, an endless parade of young male hunks had dollars stuffed into their g-strings for the last time.

Services gaycitynews. Back-to-back dance numbers usually lasted a couple of minutes and were mostly solo performances, typically animated by recorded pop tunes. Close Never Miss a Beat Sign up for email updates. The hopeful buzz is that the Gaiety will re-surface somewhere else, possibly along the West Side Highway.

There were all types of guys—tall, short, black, Asian, Latino, white, clean-cut, rough trade—and lots of them. Crime Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD Two men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say Stonewall shooting: Two teen girls shot near historic Village inn during Pride celebrations Killer convicted in murder of Philly trans woman Dominique Fells Man sentenced to 19 years in connection with death of activist Cecilia Gentili.

Where will everybody go? One stud, who called himself Rocky Balboa, even claimed to have been her boyfriend. As the song wound down, the dancer would move close to the edge of the stage, mobilize an erection and wait for a shower of dollar bills from ringside customers.

View All Events…. Bronx Times. Every week for five weeks brought a new selection of faces and bodies. The clients and the dancers? Gaiety Theater, New York City's last surviving all-male burlesque house and only remaining strip theater where performers danced completely nude, is evicted from its building on West 46th Street.

Many in the audience were regulars who had been loyal customers for years. The dancers seemed a bit lost too and spoke about Vegas and South Beach as destinations of opportunity. The beauty of the Gaiety was that you could go in anytime and stay as long as you liked.

Gaiety Theatre (male burlesque) "Gaiety" and phone number, scribbled on torn paper found in East Village apartment The Gaiety Theatre was a gay male burlesque theater in Times Square, New York City, for almost 30 years until it closed on March 17, The sign, so modest that the letter G must stand in for the word gay, is a fitting symbol of a year-old salute to immodesty, the city's last surviving all-male burlesque house and the only remaining strip theater where performers danced completely nude.

Discriminating, regular customers were in the habit of calling the box office on Monday mornings. When somebody passed away, the lounge would become a mourning room with dancers in their thongs commiserating with geezers about the recently departed.