“I feel sad for anyone who didn’t get to experience it. Because you can talk about it, but you can’t really explain it.”
Dita Von Teese describes Jubilee, known as the last classic showgirl production on the Las Vegas Strip, as one of her “favorite things to do” when she would visit Vegas in the ‘90s and 2000s. She recalls a scene that reenacted the sinking of the Titanic, and I nod politely.
I’m too embarrassed to tell her that I’m one of the people she pities. My Catholic parents didn’t see the value in exposing me to women exposing their breasts onstage.
