7-463: A showgirl is a dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show. Showgirl ( s ) may also refer to: Showgirl A showgirl is a female performer in a theatrical revue who wears an exotic and revealing costume and in some shows may appear topless . Showgirls are usually dancers, sometimes performing as chorus girls , burlesque dancers or fan dancers , and many are classically trained with skills in ballet . The term showgirl usage
14-592: A diversion between acts was the El Rancho Vegas in 1941. Showgirls with expensive costumes were presented in Las Vegas in 1952 at the Sands Casino for a show with Danny Thomas . Initially opening and closing for headline acts , sometimes dancing around the headliner, showgirls later moved on to being the main attraction and stars of the show. During the 1950s and 1960s showgirls performed in every hotel and casino on
21-440: Is also sometimes extended by strippers and some strip clubs to use it as part of their business name. The French view the term as an American idiomatic expression . In eighteenth century England the term showgirl meant a young woman who acted in a showy way to attract male attention, but by the mid-nineteenth century the term had come to mean a singer and dancer in music hall acts. Showgirls, as now presented, date from
28-508: The Folies Bergère which first featured a nude showgirl in 1918. The starring showgirl, often a headliner, is the vedette , such as Mistinguett , with a greater range of performing skills and stage time. A popular showgirl dance was the can-can . Venue locations include: Boulevard de Clichy . The Bluebell Girls, a dance troupe created by the Irish dancer Margaret Kelly in 1932, performed at
35-630: The Folies Bergère and Le Lido. By the 1950s there were permanent troupes of Bluebell Girls in Paris and Las Vegas and touring troupes that travelled around the world. The Ziegfeld Follies revue on Broadway introduced showgirls to the United States in 1907, and Busby Berkeley included them in his Hollywood films in the 1930s. The first casino on the Las Vegas Strip to employ dancing girls as
42-646: The Las Vegas strip. Competition between casinos led to increasingly lavish shows and costumes. Major shows of the late 1950s included Donn Arden 's Lido de Paris show at the Stardust , Jack Entratter ’s Copa Girls at the Sands Hotel , and Harold Minsky ’s Follies at the Desert Inn . Minsky introduced topless showgirls and these were then incorporated into The Lido de Paris , a show that ran for 31 years. The popularity of showgirl shows in Las Vegas slowly declined after
49-653: The late nineteenth century ( Belle Époque ) in Parisian music halls , café-concerts such as Alcazar , Alcazar d'Été , Divan Japonais and cabarets such as the Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts , Lapin Agile , Le Carrousel de Paris , Chez Moune , Concert Mayol , Crazy Horse , Don Camilo , Cabaret du Ciel , Cabaret du Néant , Le Chat Noir , Cabaret de L'Enfer , Le Bœuf sur le toit , Paradis Latin , Bal Tabarin , Moulin Rouge , Le Lido , and
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