Haymarket Theatre
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According to some showbiz histories, the “striptease” was first performed in burlesque one night in 1928 at the Haymarket Theatre, where a chorine named Hinda Wassau found herself trapped in too many layers of costuming and slowly peeled them off to increasingly enthusiastic applause.