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The gals drive to West Hollywood, where they audition for a gay bar owner who’s looking for a new drag queen act. Suddenly, Connie and Carla, performing as “men dressed as women,” are greeted with gleeful appreciation. They transform the sleepy bar into a popular dinner theatre, add some real drag queens to their act, and become stars. Then Connie develops a crush on Jeff (David Duchovny), a heterosexual. And the gangsters, who have been searching every dinner theatre in the country, have finally tracked them down to L.A.

I grew up attending the theatre in New York and London and listening to the soundtracks of “South Pacific,” “Oklahoma” and “Singing in the Rain,” as well as later favorites like “Evita” and “Cats,” so it was great fun to hear it all again. Vardalos and Collette have strong voices, and audiences will enjoy the music. The film also had some funny situations, like the gangster who becomes so fond of musicals that, by the end of the film, he is singing along. Mostly, however, the humor is “adults only,” like the scene where all the drag queens insist on feeling Connie’s “falsies” while she pretends not to mind.

The most disturbing aspect for Christians will be the film’s overtly pro-homosexual message. Early on, we see a medium shot of two men French-kissing. We hear references to sexual acts and male body parts, as well as allusions to gay clichés, like the scene that imitates “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and the song that Debbie Reynolds, in a campy cameo, sings: “There are worse things I could do, than go with a boy or two.” It’s all turned into a big joke.

The film perpetuates the mythical stereotype that gay men are healthy, happy and wise. It shows none of the HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis, “gay bowel disease” (undiagnosed rectal problems), drug use and alcoholism that is so prevalent in that community. The Journal of Homosexuality, for example, reported that between 25 and 33 percent of homosexuals are alcoholic, compared with 7 to 10 percent of the general population. Nor does the film so much as allude to the rampant promiscuity in the gay community. Just one illustration of this is the fact that a mere 2 percent of homosexuals claim to be monogamous, compared with 83 percent of heterosexuals.