Cha-cha heels not optional Credit: Screen capture from 'Female Trouble'

It’s the perfect time of year for this particular, peculiar soiree, as John Waters’ magnum opus Female Trouble is, face facts, a Christmas movie.

So it is that the folks behind Collective Echo bring this Dreamlanders-meets-prom-meets-Xmas-party to Stardust Video.

The evening features a live set from Tampa weirdos Gnats and record-spinning from Smilin’ Dan, the all-star Burlesque Cabaret Trio, and drag from Mari Thee Fat Wench, Medusha and The Intermissionaries. Davi Oddity and Sue Cyde will both co-host in Divine fashion and perform.

Choose your slow-dance partner carefully … actually, strike that; do it impulsively.

7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, instagram.com/collectiveecho, $15.

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This article appears in Dec. 10-16, 2025.