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‘Magic Mike’ goes live
Claudette Barius/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP
By Hayley Kaufman
Globe Staff

Happy early Mother’s Day.

Channing Tatum, the hunky actor-producer who helped turn “Magic Mike’’ into a cinematic sensation (and guilty pleasure) for women around the world, announced Thursday that the franchise will be moving into, ahem, live action.

“Magic Mike Live,’’ a male exotic dance revue, will hip roll its way onto the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino stage in Las Vegas next year.

To herald the event, the “Magic Mike’’ crew teamed with Cosmopolitan magazine to make a hilariously raunchy video, full of muscular, shirtless men snuggling with puppies. And doing chores — vacuuming, folding laundry, washing dishes — around a stunning home straight out of Architectural Digest.

“What if we created a world where women are given the same options that men have been given for centuries?’’ Tatum says to the camera. The world has been filled with “gentlemen’s clubs’’ for years, he reasons, why not “start the first gentle ladies’ club . . . or maybe not so gentle, depends on what you’re into. I don’t know. We need to know. We’re not mind readers.’’

The video ends with a Web address — magicmikelivelasvegas.com — and asks women to sign up and “confess what you really want. . .’’ and proceeds to ask a battery of questions about sex, love, fantasies, and relationships.

A press release on the show — slated to start in March 2017 — promises to “recreate the mythic Club Domina’’ familiar to fans of the “Magic Mike’’ sequel, 2015’s “Magic Mike XXL.’’ The films, the first of which was directed by Steven Soderbergh, have grossed about $300?million.

While Tatum conceived of the live revue idea and will apparently direct the show, according to the release, he isn’t planning to be on stage with any regularity — though fans can dream.

“If I’m ever in shape enough to actually do the show again, I will absolutely step on stage, just because it’s fun,’’ Tatum said during a Facebook Live chat. “I’m sure there’ll be a lot of crazy cameos.’’

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Hayley Kaufman can be reached at hkaufman@globe.com.