How many times do you sit around with your buddies at the bar and find yourselves complaining about the quality of pole dancing in Hong Kong? "It's like they don't even see it as an art form," Dale will often say, sipping his brewski. "You're so right," Bob agrees as he downs his boilermaker; "whatever happened to good, old-fashioned core strength, not to mention the requisite acrobatics?" Help is here, bros. This city's only aerial arts and pole...

The Merry Widow is a flirty, funny crowd-pleaser that first debuted with The Australian Ballet in 1975, when choreographer Ronald Hynd created the male lead role especially for Principal Dancer John Meehan. So here's the Hong Kong connection: when the romantic performance first premiered in Hong Kong in 2007, Meehan had just taken over as Artistic Director for the Hong Kong Ballet. They've welcomed him back to train the dancers for this five-show run. There are waltzes, the can-can,...