The series finale of Welcome to Your Fantasy is available now on Spotify. Across the past eight weeks, host Natalia Petrzela has pulled back the curtain on the scandalous Chippendales saga, exposing the gripping, deceptive, and murderous story in the lead-up to this episode's final act.
In the final episode, Chippendales founder Steve Banerjee's dream comes to its close…but for the dancers and business associates, and friends and enemies who were there when that dream was becoming a reality, Chippendales still lives on.
The last episode is titled, "The Final Act."
Steve Banerjee’s final move leaves the community reeling. But the show’s legacy lives on in the lives of the people who built it, and in the theaters around the world where the Chippendales dancers continue to perform today.
WELCOME
TO YOUR FANTASY is the story of how two men — an immigrant from India
and a children’s TV producer from New Jersey — transformed a seedy
nightclub in Los Angeles into a global phenomenon, and how paranoia and
greed turned Chippendales into a hotbed for drugs, corruption, and
murder.
Beyond the well-known cuffs and collars, cheesy dance
routines, and unlimited supplies of body oil, the series examines the
club’s role in the late 70s/early 80s rise of female sexuality, gender
roles and masculinity, and the corruptible power of capitalism.
Podcast
host and co-producer Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ph.D. is a historian of
contemporary American politics and culture and is currently writing a
book on American fitness culture, FIT NATION: How America Embraced
Exercise As The Government Abandoned It.
You can listen to the podcast here.
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