Dame Edna Everage and Michael Feinstein met the press today along with writer Christopher Durang and director Casey Nicholaw and BroadwayWorld.com was there!
Written by Christopher Durang , Barry Humphries and Michael Feinstein, and conceived by Feinstein and Humphries, with Lizzie Spender and Terrence Flannery, ALL ABOUT ME will play Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd St.), beginning previews Monday, February 22, 2010 and opening on Thursday, March 18, 2010. ALL ABOUT ME will play Tuesday @ 7pm, Wednesday - Saturday @ 8pm, and matinees on Wednesday & Saturday @ 2pm, Sunday at 3pm. During previews, the playing schedule will be Mon-Sat @8pm with matinees on Wed & Sat at 2pm.
Tickets are available through Telecharge.com, or 212-239-6200, and at the Box Office at a date to be announced.
Michael Feinstein - the multi-platinum selling, five-time Granny nominated entertainer plays 150 plus shows a year, including at Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium, the Hollywood Bowl and major concert halls, as well as the White House and Buckingham Palace. More than a mere performer, he is nationally recognized for his commitment to the American popular song, both celebrating its art and preserving its legacy for the next generation.Michael has written the score for two new stage musicals: The Day They Saved Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and The Gold Room, and he has just started to work with MGM developing The Thomas Crown Affair into a musical for Broadway. He recently recorded his newest album, The Power of Two in collaboration with Cheyenne Jackson.
Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), housewife, megastar, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, children's book illustrator, diseuse, chanteuse, swami, monstre sacré, polymath, adviser to British royalty, grief counsellor, spin doctor and icon has had a career that spans nearly 50 years. She has starred in such shows as Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance and Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, for which he won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Solo Performance and received a Special Tony Award for Live Theatrical Presentation. Her books include Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book, Dame Edna's Bedside Companion, Lost Monasteries of Bulgaria, her autobiography My Gorgeous Life and her new book (in the pipeline) Love Your Husband's Prostate.
