{"id":105835,"date":"2026-01-20T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:41:07","slug":"channing-tatum-to-bring-his-dancing-ab-heavy-magic-mike-live-to-new-york-city-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105835\/","title":{"rendered":"Channing Tatum to bring his dancing, ab-heavy ‘Magic Mike Live’ to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Channing Tatum<\/a> is bringing the stage spin-off of his wildly successful \u201cMagic Mike\u201d<\/a> film franchise to New York City, promising to \u201cturn up the gas\u201d on a show that already generates plenty of heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cMagic Mike Live\u201d<\/a> \u2014 which offers plenty of chiseled abs and sex-positivity \u2014 will open its specially designed 425-seat immersive experience Oct. 8 at the onetime Copacabana nightclub on the corner of 47th Street and 8th Avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to turn the gas up a little bit and make it a little hotter, just pour some gasoline on it. It\u2019s New York. So you\u2019ve got to throw everything at it,\u201d Tatum tells The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cMagic Like Live\u201d flips the traditional, cheesy male review on its head, putting the women in the audience first at a time when toxic masculinity is under fire. <\/p>\n

The show features 13 ripped male dancers and a female MC, combining songs, aerial acrobatics, comedy, plenty of drink service and audience participation, only if wanted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a dance spectacular that has a sexy twist, and sexy for us is a lot of things. Sexy is funny. Sexy is athletic. Sexy is smart. So we try to approach the dance with all of those things in mind,\u201d says Alison Faulk, co-director and choreographer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s very few spaces that are made with women in mind,\u201d she adds. \u201cThis is made with the woman in mind and making her whole night happy and easier and fun, just to like to take a load off. There\u2019s few places like that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Some of the songs will include Ginuwine\u2019s \u201cPony,\u201d which is featured in the films, 50 Cent\u2019s \u201cCandy Shop,\u201d Gallant’s \u201cOpen Up,\u201d James Brown’s “Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine\u201d and Ro James’ \u201cPermission,\u201d as well as original music.<\/p>\n

The creators say the new venue is a hybrid between a really beautiful nightclub and a theatrical space, with multiple bars and lounges and seating that ranges from couches to traditional theatrical seats, to bar stools, cabaret tables and banquets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we really try to do is to create an evening of surprise and delight that gives you a bit of what you expect and then a whole bunch of things you never thought you\u2019d ever get,\u201d says Vincent Marini, creative director and executive producer. \u201cWhat we did for the male revue is very similar to what Cirque du Soleil did to circus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tatum, who spent time in a Chippendales-like revue as a young dancer before becoming a movie star, conceived of the nightclub-style shows but warns visitors not to expect a live version of the “Magic Mike” movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the biggest reasons why I wanted to make this show was to kill that old version of male entertaining, because I\u2019ve worked in that version and it\u2019s misogynistic and degrading to women,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just gross a little bit. I ain\u2019t gonna lie. Like, I did it for like about 10 months and I was like, \u2018Wow, this is crazy. This is nuts,\u2019\u201d he adds. \u201cMost of the people that end up loving our show, I think, the most are the people that kind of hate that type of thing the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

The success of the films first spawned a Las Vegas stage show in 2017 that now has outposts in London and Berlin and is touring Australia. The version that lands in New York will be tweaked to reflect the city and creators say they’ve fine-tuned the story.<\/p>\n

Tatum says the creators have learned that audiences in different cities act differently \u2014 London’s were more staid than Vegas, for instance \u2014 and that whoever is the MC can really change the experience by setting the tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis New York production is the culmination of 10 years of work and thought and watching millions of people, men and women go to this show,\u201d says Marini. \u201cWe want to come to New York with the very best version of this that we\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Channing Tatum is bringing the stage spin-off of his wildly successful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47959,597,1117,157,5294,417,158,9,24,55,54,56,421],"class_list":{"0":"post-105835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-47959","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-dance","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gender","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-city-news","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}