Nothing to hide: All Male Revue brings ladies out in full-force

Amanda Fulkerson

On the first and third Tuesday of each month, women from all over Northern California line up outside Centerfolds strip club around 8 p.m. They&re not here looking for husbands and it&s not an amateur night, these women are here for the Fantasy Knights, and the Knights are there for them.

The Fantasy Knights are a 10-man dance troop with a catch. During their routines, they take off their clothes & all of them. For over two hours, manager Sean Brandon Lee and his dancers entertain the crowd with lap dancing, sliding down poles, giveaways and good music.

Ladies are led to the &VIP& room where they&re seated at the tip bar around the raised stage, black leather booths and at tables. The room holds 150 people and in the four years the Fantasy Knights have been performing here, not one seat has gone unsold.

The sound system booms popular rap songs to get the ladies moving while emcee and Sacramento State graduate Sean Brandon Lee takes to the stage for a hype session.

Lee has been in the male review business for over 20 years and knows what gets crowds excited. There&s only one thing these women enjoy as much as the men they came to see and that&s free stuff.

Lee shouts his signature phrase &who wants it!& and the women go nuts. The &it& can be anything from vibrators and issues of Playgirl magazine to roses or the dancer&s underwear.

In a night, Lee gives away an estimated 20 to 30 items. That&s not including the various items the dancers hand out during their performances.

The &Knights& represent a &something for everyone& mix of clean cut young men. Lee points out that all of his dancers are in school, with a mix of UC Davis and Sac State men who wouldn&t be identified personally. However, a set of twins who admittedly are part of the UC Davis wrestling team perform together as military men.

The choreographed dance routines are both entertaining and sexy. Some highlights: a tribute to Tom Cruise where the dancer begins in full &Top Gun& uniform and ends up in briefs and socks al la &Risky Business,& and a construction worker after a long day of work who lets women fantasize while watching him undress and bathe.

The Knights put on quite a show, just ask their number one fan, Joan. Joan is an older woman who began coming to shows Lee put together in the early &80s and has yet to miss one since. Along with Joan, many of the girls are regulars.

The Fantasy Knights hold the title of longest running all male review in Northern California. The troop is on their fourth year performing in the back room at Centerfolds and does not foresee slowing down any time soon. They are currently looking for new dancers to fill vacancies left by guys who are moving on to graduate school programs out of state.

The show can also provide naughty fun for a birthday or bachelorette party, or even just a fun night out with the girls. The show itself is entertaining as well as erotic and, all though the guys do get fully nude, it could be called tame compared to other raunchier male reviews in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

The guys are all available for private parties and seeing their show can be a good way to &shop& for dancers to perform at bachelorette or birthday parties.

The Fantasy Knights are currently on hiatus for the holidays and will resume their normal show schedule on Tuesday, January 18. Admission price for every show is $20 and includes all (non-alcoholic) beverages.