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Hefta owned a women’s clothing boutique, the Wardrobe Trunk, and Prigmore owned the Juniper Tree Gallery.

That’s part of the reason Carlile’s six nominations was one of the biggest stories leading up to the awards show, and the orchestral wallop of “The Joke,” which saw Carlile belting with a heart bigger than the average pop star’s wardrobe trunk, delivered in the clutch.

Here’s what a typical level looks like: you open up to a room containing a locked wardrobe trunk.

She expanded it into the Exotic World Burlesque Museum and Striptease Hall of Fame, whose holdings included Jennie Lee’s silver-sequined pasties, Gypsy Rose Lee’s wardrobe trunk, the cremated remains of the burlesque queen Sheri Champagne and — perhaps the collection’s most curious artifact — a photograph of Lili St. Cyr with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Basically, the set consists of a big black wardrobe trunk and a couple of boxes that double as bar stools, but to honor the play’s setting and theme, Mr. Kemp has created an upstage diorama of stones that seem to be sprouting weeds or wildflowers.