Humphries retries the Dame!

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:14pm

http://playbill.com/news/article/160876-Barry-Humphries-Plans-to-Retire-Famed-Dame-Edna-Everage-Character

Glad to see he is moving on to other things, but will be sad to see the one and only Edna go!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:15pm

She'll be back.

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 3:59pm

Well she was becoming more and more a baritone through the years

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:02pm

This is a shame for me. I had always wanted to see the Dame in person. Looks like that dream is a bygone

[tazber]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:07pm

Only until the Back From Retirement World Tour.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:15pm

Exactly! Look at Ted Neely's Good bye tour. Been going on for how many years?And what about Cher's numerous good bye tours? Seems she gets a face lift and it's "New person!" time.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:26pm

What's hilarious is that by switching the I and the R in the title of the thread, you've made it sound like he's doing another show as the Dame Edna.

[castlestreet]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 4:26pm

My wife and I got pulled up on stage during the "back with a vengence tour" in Rochester NY about 6 years ago- don't know that I've ever laughed so hard in my life. She gave us marriage counciling- at one point she brought a phone out on stage and called my mother and broadcast the conversation over the sound system-

In all fairness he is 78 years old- Barry Humphreys, not my mother...

I used to love when Bravo would play the old Variety shows- Lauren Bacall, Dame Edna and Tom Jones singing Friendship- and Lauren Bacall still had the deepest voice!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 10:19pm

Your mother is a he?

[Matt2]

Posted: 3/19/12 at 10:32pm

My poor dad thought Dame Edna was really a woman. Imagine his surprise when I told him she was a he!