The Folies Bergere showgirls have been entertaining audiences at the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas for 49 years. In the show's heyday in Vegas, "The Trop," where they performed, was ...

It’s 6:15 Monday night backstage at the Tropicana’s Tiffany Theatre — the beginning of the final “Les Folies Bergere” workweek. No one is here. The rooms are filled with rows of mannequin heads topped ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Folies," along with Bally's "Jubilee!," is one of the last "in-house" ...

Va-va-voom ostrich-plumed showgirls were once synonymous with Las Vegas entertainment. While Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl explores the end of an era for the glitzy, glamorous dancers, the first ...

It ends in a flourish, with gymnastics-inspired choreography, and finally the splits, as Jackson wishes. A whistling, roaring standing O. One last cancan, and the sparkling "Les Folies Berger" sign ...

The atmosphere onstage resembled a family reunion, albeit a family with lots of tall, glamorous women in heels. It was the final performance of "Folies Bergere," and one that reached out beyond those ...

When the Tropicana closed Folies Bergere in 2009 it had on its hands nearly five decades worth of can-can dresses, jewel-encrusted thongs, feathered headpieces, tuxedos and more. Now after a year of ...

It might never have seemed possible that bustling and historic 19th-century Paris would collide with a small gambling city in the American Southwest. But in 1959, nine decades after the still-running ...

Some people enjoy their work so much, they’d do it even if they didn’t get paid. Summerlin-area resident Karan Feder is one such person. Not only is she curating the showgirl costume exhibit “Les ...

(AP) From French can-can dresses to fox capes, plumed headdresses to feather boas, the long-time owner of the Folies Bergere cabaret put a treasure trove of extravagant costumes under the hammer on ...

The iconic Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas will close its doors in a matter of weeks to make way for a new $1.5billion baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics. The once-lavish Vegas hotel will shut on ...