View Full Version : Line-up and Presentation Parade of Dancers on stage
Kellydancer
07-02-2012, 04:59 PM
Ugh I STILL get nightmares to that song. Eveytime I hear it I think "oh no stage time" even though I have been out of the clubs for many years.
yoda57us
07-02-2012, 05:39 PM
A few years ago I took my ATF with me to visit a club that does the cattle call/t-shirt thing every hour to the song "Girls, Girls, Girls. The 3rd time she heard the stupid song and the DJ yapping about the free dance she looked at me and said "I could never fucking work here!" and we left...
rickdugan
07-02-2012, 06:08 PM
I remember when I worked in Tampa at Gold Club they did the damn showcase crap 2x a night to the tune of "Girls Girls Girls!" It took me almost 3 years to listen to that song again.
I was at the Gold Club in Tampa last week and they did it several times per night - I know it was a lot more than just twice. During each cattle call, girls were required to try to sell 2 for $30 dances. Any girl that didn't sell her dances had to get on the main stage or bar stage for the 2 songs. At times there were so many girls on the main stage that they could barely move without bumping each other.
ChefKitty
07-02-2012, 06:21 PM
Am I the only dancer who doesn't mind the lineup?? I like it for a couple reasons. For one, I can see from the stage if any particular people look interested in me, so it gives me a good idea of who I will approach (if my current prospect was not seeming terribly promising), it keeps me (and all the girls) in higher demand because our prospects are faced with the fact that if they don't get a dance, we can and will sell a dance to someone else, and I feel that it let's me set myself apart from the other girls.
I make a point to go on last, about 10 ft. behind the group, and walk extra slowly (we only have to walk across the stage) and do a little turn on the pole. Guys can see I'm a little different and I'm able to make instant sales.
Cheo_D
07-02-2012, 06:49 PM
I would imagine the too-frequent repetition of the "parade" does have a disrupting effect, specially if as others have mentioned it involves having every gal drop whatever they're doing to line up and that results in that dancers stop hustling and patrons stop buying at the T-10 minute mark in anticipation of the catwalk show (and/or special*). Why would you want to make people stop producing?
OTOH a line-up around the start of that particular club's prime time (when most of the A-team shift has shown up), or perhaps a "midnight parade", or partial line-ups (not everyone at once in a mass scrum) could be more manageable; also, if the display is not a hurried rush and like ChefKitty dancers have a chance to project, it can help them, giving the customer a good opportunity to check out the talent, maybe find a reason to stick around. Downside, it can also mean that someone unimpressed with the parade figures there's nothing worth waiting for, finishes his drink and leaves.
(* For that matter running specials like clockwork at too-close intervals would make it not really a special any more, but the new normal for the joint and people on both sides of the transaction will literally sit on their hands until the special arrives.)
ChefKitty
07-02-2012, 09:19 PM
Well, it may be different at different clubs but at mine the dj specifies all AVAILABLE girls to the stage.
tabletalker
07-04-2012, 12:20 PM
I make a point to go on last, about 10 ft. behind the group, and walk extra slowly
What happens if another dancer also wants to go last?
ChefKitty
07-04-2012, 12:55 PM
I just wait while the othe girls walk onto the stage I mean I don't make a big deal about it and they may not even realize what I'm doing. But hell I learned it from watching some other girl on a shift when I was there as a customer so if someone else wanted to try out this little trick I wouldn't really care :)
tabletalker
07-05-2012, 09:37 AM
I just wait while the othe girls walk onto the stage I mean I don't make a big deal about it
I was kinda hoping you'd say you resorted to cat-fighting to resolve matters, but never mind...;D
tabletalker
07-10-2012, 04:00 AM
I would hope that their evening isn't shattered because the girl has to leave them for 1 minute to walk across the stage
It takes much longer than one minute. In most clubs where I've seen parades take place each girl has to strut the full length of the catwalk individually, then wait for everyone else to do likewise before repeating the parade as a group. Depending on the number of dancers, this can take about 7 minutes.
missykrissy
08-11-2012, 04:29 AM
At my club, it's a merchandise review, twice a night.
It's not much of a parade, though, as we sometimes have 100 girls, so it's not like every girl goes up and down the length of the stage or anything.
If you just get your butt on the stage they call it good.
Not a fan but I consider it a cost of doing business. Generally, if I'm already with a customer, I just say I'll be right back, and don't even bother explaining the whole thing to him. If he wants the merchandise he can have it but I don't pitch it to him. My good customers can care less about that stuff. I just go to the stage, come right back, and keep dancing.
A lot of customers are married and don't want strip club promotional items, so it's no bargain to them. And yes, I pay for them no matter what, cost of doing business.
Djoser
08-11-2012, 03:04 PM
The girls at my club hate it, and I don't blame them--but it does get the guys' attention and they can see all the girls who are working that night (unless they are doing a private dance or a Champagne room so it's not 100% effective that way). As far as numbers of customers goes, the hour after we do this is usually as busy as it gets (though it is often as busy later as well). That doesn't mean they are all spending money, of course, but big numbers usually help.
It does perversely motivate the dancers to try and get a dance so they don't have to do it. :D
Thank all the gods it's only once a night, at midnight, and only on busy nights (it used to be every night without fail), and there's no goddamned junk cheap shit merchandise being sold--I hate that shit.
I worked at a club in Daytona that did it whenever they had a good crowd, or roughly once an hour, a 2-4-1 dance deal to sell those fucking T-shirts. We all hated that with a passion, except the manager who got 1$ a shirt. I was the junior DJ there working the slower nights, and every time I built up a crowd, he would kill it dead with the fucking T-shirt special. The infamous drug-addled, brain damaged manager with the spasmodically twitching jaw.
I still have a bunch of those goddamned shirts from that club--the customers often gave them back to the girls, who gave them to me.
The last club in Daytona I worked (not the one mentioned above) had 2-4-1 specials roughly once an hour when it was busy, and all the guys who wanted cheap blow jobs would wait until then to get dances. But of course I played really short songs so it didn't matter so much.
Djoser
08-11-2012, 03:14 PM
Oh and who the hell actually plays 'Girls, Girls, Girls' anymore, by choice?? That has got to be the most overplayed stripclub song in history, except maybe 'Closer', which at least was a good song the first few thousand times I heard it.
Once in a while some dipshit geek reject customer requests the song. I always lie and tell them I don't have it (just like with anything by 50cent or Drake). What's really funny is the look on their face when I tell them that.
Kellydancer
08-11-2012, 03:28 PM
One club I danced at played Supermodel and to me was even worse.
Djoser
08-11-2012, 03:37 PM
Any song played 3-4 times a night, that you are forced to do something you hate to, is going to suck after a while. But I never could stand 'Girls, Girls, Girls' anyway. It was lame and insipid the first time I ever heard it, it's even more lame and insipid now after hearing it 10,000 times. I think I actually had to play it a few times, but not many thank all the gods.
I never once had to play Supermodel in 12 years, or do anything annoying to it, so it doesn't bother me--but I can imagine how it would annoy you!
missykrissy
08-11-2012, 09:02 PM
Those are both horrid wretched songs.
joyluckstripclub
08-13-2012, 06:31 PM
An old favorite club of mine (which at the time had a couple dozen very good looking girls) used to usher the dancers into the dressing room. The DJ would play an old Sister Sledge song (Sister Sledge of "We Are Family" fame) called "All American Girls). This proceed about 15 to 20 minutes of 30 second $1.00 dances. It certainly set the customers up for who they wanted to get dances from. IMHO you can't do that today because too many of the dancers just don't cut it for most guys.
tabletalker
09-22-2012, 04:51 AM
In relation to using the line-up to improve time-keeping and promotional events, etc., I read an article recently about the strict regime of control to which Bunny Girls were subjected in the early years of the Playboy Clubs.
A program of "Merits and Demerits" was used to keep the girls on their toes across all aspects of their performance. According to the Bunny Manual: "The Merit/Demerit program is devised to encourage our Bunnies in maintaining high standards for key-holder relations and stylized service. This program also gives an opportunity to convey appreciation for outstanding co-operation and reward deserving Bunnies with financial compensation over and above their salaries."
If a Bunny was late back from a break, she earned 1 Demerit per minute. "Insubordination" cost 15 Demerits. Off-center Bunny Ears? 5 Demerits. The same penalty was imposed for an Unkept Tail.
Good Service Contests and Mug Incentive Contests provided opportunities to earn Merits. The Manual also specified how Bunnies should defer to male bosses: "Bunnies should address male supervisory personnel as Mr. ----- and accept instructions in a cheerful, co-operative manner." Every Bunny had to present herself for an "appearance inspection" by her Bunny Mother before work began.
The full manual for a Bunny in Detroit from 1968-69 is here:
http://www.explayboybunnies.com/history/bunnymanual/bunnymanual1.html
yoda57us
09-22-2012, 05:12 AM
So you are now comparing bunnies to exotic dancers? This malarkey might be relevant on a site about Hooters waitresses but on SW it's really not. Playboy Bunnies were waitresses, not entertainers.
tabletalker
09-22-2012, 05:39 AM
So you are now comparing bunnies to exotic dancers?
Not comparing them as such, of course. Just drawing a parallel between a code of conduct explicitly set down for one group of women back in the day and a practice currently employed in some clubs re. line-up requirements. Sorry if this crosses a boundary.
yoda57us
09-22-2012, 06:39 AM
LOL, it's not crossing a boundary, it's just a bit of a stretch....
At least make a more accurate comparison. Any arcane merit/demerit system would more accurately be comparable to the system of fines that strip club owners use to enforce club rules. Dancers are fined for being late, skipping a shift, skipping a stage set and yes, missing a line-up parade. Heck, clubs will fine girls for not wearing the right shoes or for not wearing proper attire on the floor. Forcing dancers to line up and parade around stage during their shift is not something that the ladies get brownie points for. It's a requirement to work at the club.
Aurora14
10-18-2012, 11:13 AM
When I first started dancing I didn't mind our club review. It was done around midnight and all 20 of us HAD to be onstage for 2 songs. They didn't introduce us inividually though, and if you felt like it, it was good for quick dollar dances one after another. But it seemed kin of wasteful since we weren't that big of a club. If you wanted to see who was working, just look up at the bar. Everygirl would end up there to get their drinks at least once an hour.
Over time it got old. The 2 songs were usually "Sexy and I know it" (that Jersey Shore, wiggle wiggle song) and "Fuck the DJ". Got very old. I decided that I was over the review when one night I was on my 9th LD with a customer and had to stop the dancing to go onstage. He paid for the dances and tipped me, but said he didn't feel like having to wait for me and then left. Kinda douchey on his part, but I understood him not wanting to loose our couch (it was the most comfy one) and start all over again.... plus our LD area isn't that big and sometimes there would be a line to wait to get in there after the review.
I can see how it might be helpful if you're in a big club with multiiple shifts and like 100 girls. It would be the only time you actually see most of the girls.
Kessler
10-18-2012, 01:21 PM
Weird that your club forces you to stop dancing to do the review. At the club I most frequent, if a girl is with a customer, she stays with him/her, even if it's a single LD. The only girls up there are the ones who are free in that moment.
I decided that I was over the review when one night I was on my 9th LD with a customer and had to stop the dancing to go onstage. He paid for the dances and tipped me, but said he didn't feel like having to wait for me and then left. Kinda douchey on his part, but I understood him not wanting to loose our couch (it was the most comfy one) and start all over again.... plus our LD area isn't that big and sometimes there would be a line to wait to get in there after the review.
(Bold added for emphasis). He got 9 dances from you. He apparently was in some sort of zone. Then you had to stop dancing to go onstage. So he decided not to wait. That's douchey?
Aurora14
11-27-2012, 06:35 PM
Ya, the girls HAVING to be on stage became such an "issue" that management blocked access to the LD area. So not only did we have to participate in the line up, but trying to get a dance was pointless if you knew it was coming up. Luckily there has been a shake up in the employees and there is a new DJ who happened to dislike the stage call an will only do it if a customer asks management to have us do it.
@59: The only reason I thought he was douchey, was the impatient, not getting his way thing. He was a customer that came in often enough to know how the club review worked. But I definitly can understand why he wouldn't want to start all over again and I appreciated the nice string of dances we did.
tabletalker
11-30-2012, 01:26 PM
Luckily there has been a shake up in the employees and there is a new DJ who happened to dislike the stage call an will only do it if a customer asks management to have us do it.
First time I've heard of dancers having to do the line-up if a customer requests it. How many dancers does your club have?
tabletalker
11-30-2012, 01:27 PM
Luckily there has been a shake up in the employees and there is a new DJ who happened to dislike the stage call an will only do it if a customer asks management to have us do it.
First time I've heard of dancers having to do the line-up if a customer requests it. How many dancers does your club have?
Aurora14
11-30-2012, 05:50 PM
Luckily it's rare that anyone asks for the review anymore. There are between 17 and 25 girls working on weekends. We're a tiny little dive that got new owners about 2 years ago. The new owners are doing renovations and trying to make it see more "upscale". One of them is an ex dancer so I guess she's applying the fake til you make it mantra to the establishment.
tabletalker
12-02-2012, 05:05 AM
Luckily it's rare that anyone asks for the review anymore.
It seems a bit creepy that any one guy gets to do this - the "auction" factor kicks in at that point
Graziella
12-17-2012, 01:27 AM
Ew I hate this! They do this at the Dollhouse in South Carolina and I hated it. It was like a beauty pageant gone ALL sorts of wrong. No outs either - you had to do it whether you were with a customer or not. Silly.
Kellydancer
12-23-2012, 02:32 PM
Speaking of this, someone told me about one that I find extremely demeaning. Apparently at this one club (a nude one)they require all the dancers to get on the stage completely nude and kind of dance or just let customers look at them. This person didn't tell me which club and it sounds highly suspect to me so I wonder about this. I did work at a club where they wanted us to take off our tops onstage during this but I never did.
rickdugan
12-23-2012, 09:56 PM
Speaking of this, someone told me about one that I find extremely demeaning. Apparently at this one club (a nude one)they require all the dancers to get on the stage completely nude and kind of dance or just let customers look at them. This person didn't tell me which club and it sounds highly suspect to me so I wonder about this. I did work at a club where they wanted us to take off our tops onstage during this but I never did.
I have seen this only once. I was in Cheetah in Atlanta last year and they were doing a special showcase of the girls as I walked in. There was at least 40 completely naked girls lined up along the middle and side stages all around the club. And even during normal stage sets, at any one time there were 15 naked girls spread over multiple stages.
arielbriel
12-24-2012, 02:59 AM
I've worked at two clubs where they did this. It was so annoying. One did it once and hour and afterwards we had to sell a 2 for 1 and the other it was $1 dances. Awful.
tempest666
12-30-2012, 03:12 AM
Delilah's does the cattle call a few times a night I hear.
strippername
12-30-2012, 03:26 AM
I've worked at two clubs where they did this. It was so annoying. One did it once and hour and afterwards we had to sell a 2 for 1 and the other it was $1 dances. Awful.
Same for me. Both places were mandatory even if you were with a customer. Now whenever I hear "Let's get ready to ruuuunmmmmble" or the "doon doon....doon doon..oh oh" Ferris Bueller song or whatever I think I need to run to the stage. The place in Florida was great though. It was a tourist destination and most people wanted the ugly shirt.