Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna to Co-Star on Broadway in All About Me

After issuing “dueling” press releases, the not-so-surprising official announcement has come: celebrated cabaret singer Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage (the comic character created by Barry Humphries) will co-star on Broadway in All About Me. Billed as “a singular and spectacular musical entertainment,” the show will begin performances on March 6, 2010, at a Shubert theater to be announced and open on March 23, written by Christopher Durang and directed by Jerry Zaks.

Over the course of the past few weeks, a series of press releases with a comic, carping tone had been issued by Feinstein (who had announced plans for a Broadway show called All About Me) and Dame Edna (who was supposedly heading to Broadway in an evening to be called It’s All About Me). Now the two will join forces, and both are expressing satisfaction—again, via a press release.

“Despite our previous friction, now that my mother has forgiven her, I couldn’t be more excited to be joining her on Broadway,” Feinstein said of Dame Edna, who responded, “I couldn’t be more than excited to be sharing a Broadway stage with him, in moderation. And with nice Christopher Durang at our side, who knows what saucy little moments we can come up with!”

In addition to his long list of credits as a playwright (Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Betty's Summer Vacation, Beyond Therapy, Why Torture Is Wrong), Durang has performed off-Broadway in the Sondheim revue Putting It Together and fronted a very funny faux-cabaret act, Chris Durang and Dawne, in the 1990s.

All About Me will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Robert G. Bartner and the Ambassador Theater Group. No other members of the creative team have been announced.