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Funny Girls is a world-famous drag cabaret venue in Blackpool, UK. It was formerly located on the corner of Queen Street and The Strand, a site now occupied by the Australian-themed Walkabout bar. In the early 2000s it relocated to the old Odeon cinema building on Dixon Road, which had recently been bought by local gay entrepreneur Basil Newby. It was the first of four gay venues to open on that block, later joined by Bar B, The Flying Handbag pub, and finally the Flamingo nightclub. For a solid object moving through a fluid or gas, drag is the sum of all the aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces in the direction of the external fluid flow. ... Blackpool is a seaside town in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. ... Walkabout refers to the belief of non-indigenous Australians that Aborigines were prone to go walkabout (a pidgin or perhaps quasi-pidgin expression) meaning that they would stop doing their jobs and wander through the bush for weeks at a time. ... Odeon Cinemas is the largest chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Gay Blackpool. ... This article is about a nightclub. ...


A full show is performed six nights a week. Visitors may either pay a small fee to stand, more to sit, with the option of a full sit-down meal.


Bar B is a gay bar located on the first floor of the old Odeon complex, alongside Funny Girls and the new Flamingo nightclub. The Odeon was a building used for musical performance in Athens built in the 5th century BC. Hence, any building in ancient Greece or the ancient Roman Empire was called an odeon. ... This article is about a nightclub. ...


References

  • It's not goodbye to Blackpool, just au revoir Political journalist Simon Hoggart writes of Blackpool, and Funny Girls, "the only transvestite nightclub I've ever been to, and I'm sure the only one in the world with such a cosy, homely feel to it."


 
 

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