Dame Edna closing
Dame Edna closing
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#0Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:40pm
From Variety:
"NEW YORK -- Maybe once was enough.
Barry Humphries will pack up his gladiolas and close "Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance" May 1.
The show marks the performer's sophomore effort on Broadway. "Dame Edna: The Royal Tour" opened in fall 1999 and ran 297 performances. "Vengeance" will have clocked in at 180.
"Back With a Vengeance" opened well at the Music Box Theater, grossing nearly $350,000 for most weeks in November and December 2004. Weekly receipts started to fall below $200,000 in March, however, and last week, the show grossed $154,329, playing to only 38.2% capacity.
Performing at the smaller Booth Theater, "Royal Tour" consistently grossed $200,000-$300,000.
Date in print: Thurs., Apr. 14, 2005, Los Angeles"
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#1re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:41pm
THE TIMING
SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
You have no idea how upset I am about this.
Sad.
;-(
Updated On: 4/14/05 at 09:41 PM
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#2re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:44pmI loved this show. At least I'll get to see it once more before it closes.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#3re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:46pm
Well,
You can always wave gladiola's in your apt.
POSSUM.
#4re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:48pmit is sad. I loved this show and i was dissapointing to see that when i saw it, the theater was half empty.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:30pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Where am I going to get my fill of Gerrard Carter now?!?!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#6re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:36pm
Oh how sad! I hope they can muster up a tour. Jarico's always wanted to see Dame Edna. I took my parents (who knew nothing about Dame Edna) to The Royal Tour and they LOVED IT. My dad still talks about it to this day. He cracks up every time he thinks about Dame Edna referring to the people in the balcony seats as "Les Miserables" and "signing" her dialogue to them.
I love when she "accidentally" insults someone and when the audience laughs, she yells, "No! No!" as if she was somehow misunderstood. I have Dame Edna's Neighborhood Watch on DVD. Great stuff!
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
MTRBOI24
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
#7re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:52pmThis show IS touring. So, who knows. Maybe you can see Gerrard in another city. I know this will be in Buffalo and Rochester. Im sure there is somewhere you can find a tour schedule.
#8re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 3:54pm
It's sad when any show closes. 
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#10re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 4:29pm
Awww. I loved the show and was hoping to see it once more. Oh well...all good things must come to an end.
MTRBOI24
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
#11re: Dame Edna closing
Posted: 4/15/05 at 4:43pmYou can see it, find out where it is touring too.
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