‘Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease’ celebrates 25 years of heating up Las Vegas nights

Anita Mann was not thinking about how to celebrate a silver anniversary when she founded Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease, the long-running topless revue at Luxor, 25 years ago. Her focus was on the choreography, a six-month contract and establishing a sisterhood atmosphere among dancers. She’s been focused on adding new routines as of late and building bonds with new dancers as cast members move up in the organization, move on to irresistible opportunities and start families of their own. 

“I’m in shock,” she says in reaction to the fact that Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease has lasted for a quarter of a century. “Other than that, what we decided to do in the middle of this year, I said, is, ‘Every month we are going to change a dance number.’ It takes three to four weeks to choreograph it, get it lit, costumed, get the music. Then there’s still performing the older show every night while they’re waiting to do the new numbers.”

Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease has raised the curtain inside Luxor’s Atrium Showroom some 10,000 times for more than 2.5 million Fantasists since 1999. The milestones are being celebrated with an Oct. 16 anniversary celebration and cocktail reception that is expected to have extended family in attendance, including choreographers Mandy Moore (Taylor Swift, La La Land), Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson (Dancing with the Stars), Chris Judd (Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez) and former Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease star Yesi Burgess. 

The esteemed group of dance-step designers contributed new routines for the 25th anniversary version of Fantasy: The Strip’s Sexiest Tease. “Normally every year I change a number. We just want to keep the show kind of fresh,” Mann says. “The ladies have been phenomenal, and they’ve allowed me to do this. We’ve changed half the show. They’re just amazing pros and just dived into it. We have a new opener and new closer, which are two big numbers.”

Mann expressed particular enthusiasm about the return of Burgess, who had departed earlier to take on the roles of resident director, dance captain and featured performer at a nightlife and live entertainment venue at another Strip property. “She left me, which I wanted her to do,” Mann said. “She came back and choreographed a new country number.”

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