Building a âmodern-day Edenâ
Magic Mike Live started
as Channing Tatumâs running joke on the set of the first film: what if we
actually toured a stripshow? Itâs now a blockbuster franchise with productions in Las Vegas, London and Berlin.
Channing Tatum announced Magic Mike Liveâs Australian tour at a Melbourne media call in December 2019. Then the pandemic hit. Photograph: Andrew Tauber
Australia was the next wild plan. Tatum wanted to tour with an elaborate spiegeltent that would travel from city to city. A local cast was trained and Het Spiegelpaleis â a 100-year-old, family-run Belgian business â was commissioned to build the venue. It was named The Arcadia, âbecause itâs like a modern-day Edenâ.