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Lola’s Casino under the main Hippodrome casino, featured dancing girls.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Hippodrome Casino has opened a new subterranean gambling venue with dancing girls performing in cages above card and roulette tables.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Las Vegas-style Lola\u2019s Underground Casino is understood to be a first in the UK, the venue is named after Lola McGuire, an Edwardian chorus girl famous for organising illicit card games and drinking parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burlesque dancer Polly Rae, who is creative director of Lola\u2019s, said: \u201cI\u2019ve worked internationally and done a lot of stuff in Las Vegas where this has been happening for years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the girls perform in these circus-like tiger cages while the audience can sit at the gambling tables or at the bar really creates an atmosphere where everything is sort of happening all at once. It\u2019s going to be phenomenal. It literally is like going through the door to Narnia. The moment you walk down that staircase you\u2019re not in the Hippodrome casino any more, you\u2019re in Lola\u2019s Casino. The dark, sexy atmospheric energy just transports you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The new casino is below the main auditorium of the former theatre in a space that originally housed a 100,000 gallon water tank, animal cages and props rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of gamblers visiting the Hippodrome, which opened on Leicester Square in July 2012, has hugely exceeded initial forecasts of about 20,000 a week and now stands at about 32,000. Owner Simon Thomas said: \u201cTo accommodate future growth we wanted to be well prepared and open a casino that echoes what Vegas does brilliantly \u2014 putting the entertainment on the same floor as the gambling, much closer to the tables. Hitherto this this would have been impossible for any UK casino, but we\u2019re bringing to life the vision and spirit of the 2005 Gaming Act which now allows venues like ours to offer a much more rounded entertainment experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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