Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 17, 1999
Closed Jul 2, 2000

Playing at
Booth Theatre

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Dame Edna: The Royal Tour received a special Tony Award this year for Best Live Theatrical Event. Event, indeed. Part musical, part stand-up comedy act, this one-man (or is that one-woman?) show features Australian national treasure Barry Humphries as the one and only Dame Edna Everage. In his/her Broadway debut, the middle-aged megastar Dame Edna discusses her San Francisco-based son Kenny, the Windsors, Kenneth Starr, baby-sitters, and her most important creation, The 2000 Prostate Olympics.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Booth Theatre
222 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036

This charming little theater, built in the memory of Edwin Booth, opened in 1913 and contained a collection of his memorabilia. The theater's intimacy allows good sightlines from all over the house. The best seats are located on the center aisle wh [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

[The other night I dreamt about Dame Edna Everage, now in her triumphant Broadway debut, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, at the Booth Theatre. Upon awakening, I quickly scribbled down what I could remember of the dream, but unfortunately, I could only remember so much of Edna's exceptional prose. So, while incomplete, this is as much as I have.]

Yes, Possum, this is Dame Edna Everage, coming to you live from the superior world of the Critics' Seat. This week, this dead and evil Critics' Seat is alive and revivified with happiness and love -- and I mean that in a "lovely, caring way."

I understand your usual critic, Leonard Jacobs, is simply too overcome and overwrought with rapture, joy and[...]

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Reviewed by Leonard Jacobs on Nov 29, 1999