EXT. COURTHOUSE - DAY
Dana walks from the courtroom a free woman and is treated
like a celebrity, with people asking for her autograph.
She never talks to MORGANNA, who is surrounded by media
event thrill seekers.
INT. SUGAR SHACK
The SUGAR SHACK is back in business, but Dana's personal
life has become bankrupt.
Always struggling for funds during the winter, Dana starts
up a high-stakes POKER game on Sunday nights at the club.
DANA
Alright, ante up, $10 each for the
house.
Dana collects the up-front money from DENNIS, JACK and
GEORGE.
DANA
(continuing)
Who are we waiting for?
JACK
BRANDY told me she was coming
tonight and would bring a friend,
someone she knows from Las Vegas.
DENNIS
I see her car pulling in.
Brandy pulls into the Sugar Shack parking lot.
She and her friend, LARRY SLADE, get out and enter the Sugar
Shack.
BRANDY
Hi Dana, sorry I'm late. I just got
off work. Things got hectic right
when I was supposed to leave.
GEORGE
That's alright, we're just getting
started. Dana, and everybody else,
I'd like to introduce Larry Slade.
He's back from Las Vegas where he
just finished a seasonal position
as Liberace's bodyguard, driver,
and assistant.
DANA
Well, our little poker game finally
attracted a celebrity of sorts!
LARRY
I guess I did rub elbows with him,
but that's about it, except for the
the fact that he always carried
most of his money and jewels around
with him in a safe in the trunk of
his limo and it was my job to make
sure they didn't disappear.
Dana is watching LARRY intently.
The poker game gets under way and Larry loses, and keeps on
losing.
They take a break during which Larry and Dana strike up a
conversation.
LARRY
(continuing)
Dana, you know I've stopped into
the club before to see your
dancers. I also know that you stage
the shows yourself, designing
costumes, choreographing the
dancers' routines, and training the
girls. I've seen shows all over Las
Vegas and you should know that your
acts are just as classy as anything
they put on there.
DANA
Thanks for the compliment, and
that's the one aspect of this
business that I really find
satisfying.
LARRY
One of your dancers, I think her
name is Shenanigans, is so smooth
and provocative on stage. She
presents herself with such
professionalism. I think she has
the quality to headline or feature
as a touring act and I know you
deserve the credit!
Dana sits back in her CHAIR and sensing that they had a
rapport building between them, speaks right up about a
RADICAL IDEA that's been churning around in her head for
months.
DANA
What would you think if I was able
to turn the tables on the sex
exploitation of women in the adult
entertainment business?
LARRY
Not sure...what do you mean
exactly?
DANA
You know...I could teach men to
dance for the pleasure of an
audience of women, just like I now
teach women to dance for men.
LARRY
Men...dance...just what are you
talking about?
DANA
Men, Larry, MEN! I could coach them
just as effectively as I do the
girls and I think today's women are
ready for it. And it would be
unique. I've never heard of this
being done anywhere in the world!
The other guys at the table picked up on what was being
proposed and LAUGHED at the prospect.
GEORGE
Dana, really, can you imagine the
reaction of the men in the audience
on the night you put a male
stripper on stage?
JACK
Shut up about that stupid idea,
Dana, and deal the cards.
DANA
You guys...
DANA (V.O.)
I knew what I was proposing was a
long shot, but at least I got the
idea out there.
Dana stops talking and deals a hand.
Her husband, Darryl, staggers in drunk, stumbles over to
Dana and tries to tell how to play her hand.
DARRYL
No, no, play the ace.
DANA
C'mon Darryl, I'm winning. Don't
mess with my good luck.
Darryl keeps on pestering Dana but eventually backs off.
Dana stops talking about her idea, but doesn't stop thinking
about it.
INT. SUGAR SHACK - EARLY EVENING
A month after first coming up with the idea, during the
early evening hours before the patrons come and the stage
springs alive with the enticement of typical female exotic
entertainment at the Sugar Shack, Dana decides to try out
her idea of MALE STRIPPING on a select group of FEMALE
employees.
She has been working with CLARK, one of her male waiters,
preparing for the trial run of her male exotic dance review
idea.
DANA
Alright, ladies have a seat. Clark,
are you ready.
CLARK
Any time, Dana.
DANA
Hit the music.
Clark comes out in a make-shift costume and goes through a
complete STRIP TEASE during one song.
The ladies in this practice audience get into the whole
scene and GO WILD.
Clark is a raw unrefined amateur but the women there get the
idea and respond.
DANA
(continuing)
So, ladies, what did you think of
that?
BRENDA
Dana, was he ever workin' it and
was he buffed! You've got to try it
out for real, Dana!
COLLEEN
She's right, that was awesome. I
want to see another stud muffin go
at it!
The next night Dana is hosting the Sunday night poker game
once again. LARRY SLADE turns up to play. Dana starts in on
her IDEA again with him.
DANA
Larry, I'm going to do it!
LARRY
Do what?
DANA
I'm going to try my idea of
presenting male exotic dancers at
the club. I gave it a test run and
the ladies who were there loved it.
LARRY
Hey, well, good luck, but remember
what I told you the last time we
talked about this. You've got to
have real men dancing, no sissies!
DANA
I remember, Larry. I know you're
right, but the real men I've talked
to about this want's nothing to do
with it.
LARRY
You've just got to keep trying.
DANA
You're absolutely right. I need
good-looking, tough, real men--guys
who have the courage to try
something different and the
willingness to listen and learn
about what needs to be done to make
this work, and interested in having
some fun and making some good
money!
LARRY
You sound like a recruiting
commercial for the U.S. Army.
DANA
I'm deadly serious. I know exactly
the kind of man I need. Larry, you
are that type of man!
LARRY
Me...dance...?
DANA
Look, Larry, you're perfect. You
only work about six months out of
the year and mostly in the winter
when you wouldn't need to be here.
You're handsome, charming,
well-built. One other thing, I
think you've got the guts to try it
and the guts to pull it off.
JACK
Either shut up about this idiotic
idea or get out of the game.
Larry and Dana toss in their cards and go off by themselves
to continue their discussion.
LARRY
Well, just what would I have to do,
I mean what would I wear? When
would you actually want to start?
DANA
Hold on I can't start with just one
dancer. I need two or three, at
least!
LARRY
Yeah, yeah, well, where the hell
are we gonna find 'em?
DANA
We've got to and we will, that's
all there is too it.
INT. SUGAR SHACK - DAY
A few days later, Dana's in her office when a handsome young
man, ELLIOT LANZANNA walks into the club.
As he enters the office Dana can see that he is a meticulous
dresser.
He greets Dana by kissing her on the HAND.
ELLIOT
Hello, Dana.
DANA
Come right in.
ELLIOT
Miss Montana, I'm so pleased to
meet you. You're much younger than
I expected and so lovely and to
have a club like this, of your own.
Larry wasn't real specific about my
coming here to meet you. He just
said it was some sort of a business
idea.
DANA
Yeah, you might say that, Elliot.
What do you do for a living?
ELLIOT
I'm a pilot. I fly private charters
and commercial flights. It's okay,
but I'm not going to fly airplanes
forever.
DANA
That certainly sounds like
challenging work. As to why Larry
sent you to see me, I've decided to
do something revolutionary here at
the Sugar Shack. I'm going to
present, for the first time
anywhere in the world, male exotic
dancers expressly for the
entertainment of women. I wanted to
talk to you about becoming one of
them.
Elliot's EXPRESSION is more about being intrigued than put
off by the suggestion.
ELLIOT
Sounds interesting...tell me more.
DANA
I've been watching you for the past
few minutes and you are just the
type of man that I've been looking
for. You're handsome, charming,
comfortable with your manhood, and
you're mysterious, all in one
package. Just one more thing, can
you dance?
Elliot smiles, nods that he can, but the full impact of what
he just heard has not quite hit him.
ELLIOT
I grew up thinking I'd be a
fireman, or maybe a cowboy,
certainly not a male stripper.
DANA
Elliot, the world we live in keeps
changing. When you were a boy there
was no such thing as an astronaut.
You couldn't have wanted to become
one as a boy. Now we have them and
it's a goal any boy can strive for.
ELLIOT
I have to admit, you've got a point
there, but what would it involve, I
mean becoming a male exotic dancer.
DANA
First of all, I'll work with you
personally for as long as it takes
to get you ready. Your act will be
completely choreographed. I'll
design a set and costume especially
for you.
Elliot, looking like a young ERROL FLYNN, with an entrancing
personality mixed with magnetic charm, listens and is drawn
into becoming a part of Dana realizing her dream.
ELLIOT
Let's give it a try. When do you
want to get started?
A few weeks later a man named GUY GARRET makes a commitment
to become a member of the first group of MALE EXOTIC DANCERS
the world had ever seen.
Dana feverishly prepares the three men for opening night.
DANA (V.O.)
Each man had his own strengths and
weaknesses. One was a natural
dancer while another could barely
follow a beat. Each dancer was
given his own stage image, costume,
and choreographed dance routine. I
admired these men. I couldn't
promise them success. I thought I
knew what it took to stimulate a
woman's fantasies, but no one had
ever tried this before. It would
take more than bare flesh to draw a
woman's mind into the sensual
fantasy drama unfolding before her
on stage--it would take mystery, a
sense of adventure, a little fear,
a dose of sex and yet the audience
had to feel safe and secure that
nothing was going to happen to
upset them during the performance.
The male ego is fragile and men
don't take well to rejection. Like
thoroughbreds they were
temperamental, difficult to work
with, but in the end they listened
and learned. By opening night they
were ready.
Dana and the three male dancers are nervously waiting in the
DRESSING ROOM.
The CROWD, about a hundred, not bad for a MONDAY NIGHT, was
assembled and impatient for the show to start.
CROWD (O.S.)
Bring em on! Where are the men?
C'mon let's see these hunks!
ELLIOT
God, Dana, my legs are so skinny.
They're going to boo me right off
the stage.
DANA
You'll do fine...don't worry.
The crowd grows restless and Dana senses it is show time.
She leaves the dressing room to introduce the first DANCER.
The three men listen and wait.
DANA (O.S.)
Ladies, thank you all for coming.
This is a very special night as the
Sugar Shack goes into yet another
dimension of entertainment. It's
new and it's different, it's risky,
but damn it's about time. Now let's
have a really big welcome for my
first gorgeous male dancer or the
first time anywhere,
ladies...Elliot Lanzanna!
THE END OF DANCING STALLIONS LIMITED TV SERIES EPISODE 07
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