Alabama

Alabama of Dollies Playhouse

She's one of the most popular if not the most popular dancer I've ever met--with the girls she works with. This is not taking a thing away from the response she gets from the men who come into Dollies.

I am trying to clear the fog from my head from last night at Dollies----in a coffee shop-downing cup after cup as I type into my laptop coming to grips with why Alabama has the love and support of the other girls. This just doesn't happen in the cut throat world of the topless club where the girls compete against each other-----putting their looks and personalities on the line. Not that friendships don't develop in clubs between girls. It's just the nature of the beast. Jealousy is rampant when customers flock to one girl over the others, or a dancer is perceived doing better than the others, or one is considered younger and prettier than most.

Upon meeting her one sees that Alabama is cut from a different cloth, not that the other cloth is bad, or all of the same fabric since each girl is unique and different from the others. But here it's so obvious. She waves at people from the stage. A stray dog wanders into the club and suddenly she's nowhere to be seen since she's lying in the middle of the floor playing with the dog. Now who can dislike someone like that?

Not that some of the other girls at Dollies don't display such antics. They do and that's just one of the many things that makes this place great. But hey------someone's got to take the rap for Dollies now and I've decided that it should be Alabama. Must be the nun's outfit......the outfit she wore those many nights we were shooting the Dollies Trendy Toilet Sex series in the bathrooms when dancers, customers and managers posed before my digital camera. Or when she served communion at the Chinese restaurant at the last St. Louis Metro East party decked out in nun's garb--the liquid in the glasses plain water laced with methyl blue which would cause us to urinate in technicolor a few hours later.

There's more to her than all of this, as if this isn't enough. One helluva lot more. How many dancers compose a poem, reaching deep down into their hearts and heads, and stick it on the dressing room wall on display for the other girls and staff? The poem causes everyone to think and to reflect and the others are proud to call the girl one of their own. The poem shows perhaps too much of herself. Still she puts it out there.

Does she have talent? And how far does it go? I'm jumping here but I can see her in movies--not smut movies but those made in Hollywood portraying complex characters full of inner contradictions--the kind most of us can identify with. And that's saying a lot. A female James Dean? That's it. But he died early and violently. Never die Alabama.

Want to really meet Alabama? There is nothing quite like meeting her face to face but not everyone lives close to Dollies. However, we have the next best thing. Check her out in our audio files section. You won't have to download a thing unless you have a prehistoric browser. But we are warning you. She's off the wall and likely to say just about anything for a laugh. Meanwhile Angie. Alabama's partner in crime, ribs Jack about how she plans on using a rubber. When you finish listening to this one, there will be no doubt in your mind that Dollies is in a class of one with its own unique irreverent flair that is becoming its trademark throughout the American continent. And that's saying a lot since there are over 2500 clubs in the U.S. alone.