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Hot Box Culture

One of the many locations that Guys and Dolls takes you is into the local Hot Box that Adelaide works at. 

  • New York in the 1910s-40s gave way for "Stock Burlesques." These shows featured suggestive humor and songs, as well as striptease dancers.

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  • Soon after it became popular, a new, "clean" form of burlesque split off from Hot Box culture. Taking place in bars with music, women would perform extravagant numbers in minimal costumes but without any real nudity.

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Minsky's Brothers burlesque became the staple of Hot Box Culture

  • Hot Boxes became more popular than theatre during and after the Great Depression, due to lower admission fees.

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