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SunGays: Connie & Carla

  • We Luv Video 100 North Loop Boulevard East Austin, TX, 78751 United States (map)

Oh blessed Saint Mary of drag queens. Please grant your never humble servants and our new friends with grace, jewels, and support hose.

Join We Luv Video and Out of the Closet Thrift Stores in celebrating Pride Month with an underseen throwback! Connie and Carla is Nia Vardalos’ zany follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

A riff on Some Like It Hot, two airport lounge singers find themselves in hot water after witnessing a mafia hit. Connie and Carla (Nia Vardalos & Toni Collette) run away to Los Angeles and disguise themselves as drag queens (men performing as women! This is 2004 after all) and become hosts of a local drag revue! Even messier: Carla falls for one of her new friend’s straight brother (David Duchovny), who thinks she’s a man! Screwball silliness ensues and they hide from the mafia & become local drag legends!

Full of 2000’s “tolerance” lessons, broadway references, and cameos that will make you * gay gasp *. Connie and Carla is a cult-hit waiting to happen! Be there or be straight!

P.S. Expect some goodies from Out of the Closet.

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