Anyone out there been to see a live show called Dame Edna? All I know is that it's some guy in drag but what is the show like/about? I just won a pair of tickets to see this show at a very nice theatre which I love to go to for shows like Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, etc., etc., etc.

Any comments? Thanks very much.

Chao!

Brother/sister xxx do you mean "ciao" (chow)

Yes, brother/sister x, I meant ciao! Thanks for the spelling help!

Ciao!

It's like going to have a talk with your daffy grandmother. Dame Edna just talks about different things going on in "her" life and current events. Some of it is very funny. Just sit in the back because sometimes she picks volunteers from the audience.

She is Australia's funniest export. Grab the chance to see her!!

Well who in the hell am I thinking about? I thought she was that funny fag cross dresser from England.

One of my favoite Edna lines -- as she is talking with a very overweight woman she has brought up on stage.

Edna: Oh, my what a colorful print they used for that dress, dear.
Woman: Thank you.
Edna: and they were able to find SO much of it!

I saw one Dame Edna show in London a couple of years ago and laughed a lot.
Barry Humphreys (not sure the spelling is right) plays Dame Edna. I also saw him play Fagin in Oliver in London and couldn't believe it is the same person. In the Dame Edna show I saw, he also started the evening with a huge orchestra concert in which he was an aging and filthy conductor and although the entire stage was set for about a 40 piece orchestra there were only about three people there, as if the rest didn't show up. He conducted wildly as no one played except for an occassional crash of cymbals or a toot on a tuba. He'd then turn to the audience groping himself and drinking water which he drooled and spit all over the first couple of rows. Very low brow and hysterically funny.

The banter with audience members on stage was the funniest part.

Well thanks for the information. It does sound like a fun show. I just pictured it being this guy/lady singing show tunes or something like that.

The show I won tickets for is one week from today.... I'll try to remember to post back and say how it went.

Thanks again.

Try to catch a gladiola (you'll understand later) and be sure to report back. I'm curious if the current show is just Dame Edna or other characters as well. But either way would be fun.

I've heard from several who've seen Dame Edna in shows here in Ontario Canada and laughed their guts out the whole time.

Also - isn't "she" the one who had a role on Ally McBeal last year - as this sort of annoying, advice-on-love giving old "lady" with purple hair...

Yes, you're right. I've never watched Ally McBeal (don't watch much TV) but I did see a promo for it which showed Dame Edna. Meant to watch the show just to see her, but forgot about it.

Doesn't "she" also dispense advice for Vanity Fair?

XXX- I know it is difficult for you to distinguish an Australian accent from an English one, but I assure you that Dame Edna is Australian.

Let's hope she brings Les Patterson, the self-styled Australian cultural attache along to Sandi's show.

Had the pleasure of seeing Dame Edna last year and he/she is absolutely outrageous.. We in the balcony were the "poor possums".. If your lucky enough you might get invited on stage for a light supper Dame Edna adds local color to her show and somehow her outfits remmind me of lamp shades gone awry...lol I envy you...lol

Saw the show in NYC the last time he appeared. One of the funniest shows I ever saw.

Sandi -- I gotta' agree with the others. I saw Dame Edna about two years ago in New York. It was absolutely hilarious. It is more a stand-up routine than a traditional play or musical. There won't be a "plot," more her just talking about her life, current events and making fun of people in the audience. I assure you, though, that it is relatively clean humor and very fun. If you got tickets for free, all the better! Enjoy!

Hello Possums....

Well, I saw the show last night. It was a lot of fun. She picked on a lot of people in the audience, several ladies about decorating their homes, asking them what colors were on their walls and curtains and bedspreads, then she said something like "Well you've all been very helpful in my search for decorating ideas, ruling some out that is."

She called one poor woman at home live in her show, a mother of one guy in the audience. That was probably the funniest bit she did.

She did sing a couple songs, one about "The Many Friends of Kenny", referring to her son's sexual orientation and how many of his friends happened to be in the audience. That was a hoot.

She had a couple ladies come up on stage who she said looked hungry, rather large ladies, and she ordered them a meal from the theatre's restaurant, went on and on about how terrible arugala greens taste, but then talking about how her show is "The show that cares," and that you'd never get this kind of personal service from Ms. Saigon.

I didn't catch a gladiola (darn!) but a lot of other people did.

I think that about sums up my Dame Edna experience... very glad I went to the show. Thanks for all the information about "Her".

Sandi, I am an Aussie and have seen Dame Edna many times. A word of advice. DO NOT BE LATE. If you walk into that theatre after she has started, you will be mercilessly tormented for the rest of the evening. She is a hoot. Barry Humphreys is a very fine actor also as well as a good comedian, I think you will love it.