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New York City, New York
NYC's long-running drag dinner theater in Midtown East
Lips is a drag dinner-theater institution in Midtown, where the queens host, serve, and perform while you eat — a full Vegas-style revue built around your table rather than a stage you watch from across the room. The New York original opened in 1996 and later settled at 227 East 56th Street, a space with its own drag pedigree (it housed the Little Hippodrome supper club back in the 1970s). The brand has since franchised to cities including Chicago, Atlanta, San Diego, and Fort Lauderdale. Expect themed nights — bottomless drag brunch, bingo, birthday and bachelorette celebrations — and a high-camp, audience-roasting energy aimed squarely at groups and first-timers as much as locals. It's more tourist-friendly spectacle than neighborhood hang, and that's the point: if you want a guaranteed-fun, reservations-advised drag night out in Manhattan, this is the reliable pick.
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