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Byline: Rebecca Mead PHOTOGRAPHED BY FRANZ WALDERDORFF
No fake breasts, no crumpled dollar bills, and not a stripper's pole in sight. The performers at New York City's sexiest nightclub, the Box, show as much skin as they can without baring it all.
When the Box, a nightclub in Manhattan that features a burlesque stage show, first opened, members of the audience were invited to guess which member of the house dance troupe was a drag queen. It was a gag, of course: The four dancers--who spend the night shimmying, wiggling, and high-kicking in outfits that range from skimpy to negligible--are all girl.
"The show is really about how the light ...