| So where to take in the torch-song chanteuse, the chair-straddling ecdysiast, the ladies of the night dressed up in drag? |
| The eponymous ecdysiast of Chinese Stripper, 1991, claps her palms together above her head ritualistically, her eyes shut tight. |
| As Laura Benanti's Louise blossomed from wallflower to burlesque beauty, she clarified that she was no mere stripper but an ecdysiast. |
| The legendary ecdysiast should take Britain off his itinerary altogether. |
| A demeaning booking in a burlesque theater gives Louise the chance to emerge from Momma's shadow and become cafe society's favorite ecdysiast. |
| A sylvan foursome has gone terribly wrong, and the surviving ecdysiast hastens to Kyle's cabin and begs for refuge. |
