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which then barred models from moving. Even though homosexual acts between men were illegal at that time, the
Revuebar also incorporated a Sunday night show aimed at a gay audience. By 1967, the venue was purely hosting striptease. This would, in turn, make way for glitzy, big budget erotic shows of
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Revuebar closed on 10 June 2004 and became a gay bar and cabaret venue called Too2Much, designed by Anarchitect. In November 2006, it changed its name to Soho Revue Bar and was the home of club nights and special events. On 29 January 2009, the Soho Revue Bar
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district. For many years, it was the only venue in London that offered full-frontal, on-stage nudity of the sort commonly seen in other cities in Europe and North
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began to attract customers, and Soho was becoming more of a venue for gay nightlife the
Revuebar was seeming outdated. The name and control of the theatre (but crucially, not the property itself) was bought by Gérard Simi in 1997 who reconfigured the show as a more conventional striptease revue.
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The venue reopened on 8 January 2011, with a new name and new management, and a complete decor/equipment refurbishment/upgrade.
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film "The Comic Strip", a semi-fictional depiction of the alternative comedy revue of the same name that took place there.
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Today Magazine January, 1961. "A Nice Quite Country Town, That's the Place for a Strip Show". An article by Ernest Dudley.
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Penthouse magazine Vol 2, No. 11, October, 1967. "Stripping the Light Fantastic". A review of the 1967 show.
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The Soho Clarion, Issue no.132. Spring, 2008. The Soho Society. "My Own Private Revuebar" by Gerard Simi.
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