Marilyn Monroe played a burlesque queen in Ladies of the Chorus . A wink's as good as a nod, so they say. Beyond the beer and breasts, there's not much going on. Gone are the days when strippers also were dancers, comediennes, singers and entertainers. Not one performer at Christie's Cabaret, for example, emerges from a giant oyster shell.
Nobody dances with ostrich feathers and no one does the can-can anymore.
No one tells a joke or seems to be having any fun, either. Being a stage performer during the waning days of burlesque gives her a unique perspective on the current state of live adult entertainment. We live in a different era. Guys don't have any patience anymore. They lose interest when a dancer spends five minutes taking her gloves off.