DAME EDNA EVERAGE and MICHAEL FEINSTEIN return to Broadway in their extravagant musical entertainment ALL ABOUT ME, directed by three time Tony Award-nominee CASEY NICHOLAW.

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Category: Musical, Original, Broadway
1^st Preview Performance: February 22, 2010
Opening Night Performance: March 18, 2010
Final Performance: April 4, 2010
Total # of Performances: 20

2010 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations – John Oddo (nominee)

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"TALK ABOUT A READY-MADE STANDING OVATION!
 Not since Felix Unger and Oscar Madison has Broadway 
had such an odd couple on the boards!"
- Michael Kuchwara, AP 

"I LAUGHED FROM THE OVERTURE, AND ON...
You will have a great time!" 
- Liz Smith

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DAME EDNA EVERAGE is probably the most popular and gifted woman in the world today. Housewife, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, talk show host, swami, children's book illustrator, Megastar, spin doctor and icon. With Dame Judith Anderson, Zoë Caldwell and Nicole Kidman, she is one of a remarkable succession of female stars to emerge from Australia. During the 1970s Dame Edna's success in Australia was repeated in Britain with London stage shows including Housewife Superstar and A Night with Dame Edna. Subsequently, she has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London and at the prestigious Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Television credits include two critically acclaimed UK specials, "An Audience with Dame Edna" and "Another Audience with Dame Edna." She has also hosted two series of her own innovative chat show, "The Dame Edna Experience," where her past guests have included Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Liza Minnelli, Sean Connery, and Mel Gibson. Edna has also recorded TV specials, the last of which "A Night on Mount Edna" won the foremost European TV Entertainment Award, the Golden Rose of Montreux 1991. Edna's other notable awards include a British Academy Award, first prizes at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Gold Awards at the New York Film and TV Festival. Her books include Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book, Dame Edna's Bedside Companion, and her seminal autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, which is translated into many languages and which has, on Government orders, been placed in hotel bedrooms throughout Britain and Australia. Possibly Jewish, Dame Edna is a widow, with three grown children. She spends her time visiting world leaders and jet-setting between her homes in Malibu, London, Melbourne, Switzerland and Martha's Vineyard. She is the Founder & Governor of "Friends of the Prostate" and the creator of the World Prostate Olympics. She is a noted collector of Tiffany windows and Tamara de Lempicka paintings. Her recent play, Chagall at the Chock Full o' Nuts, in which Chagall, Tom Stoppard and Buddy Holly play metaphysical Scrabble, has been hailed by critics as a moving testament to her intellectual range and her language skills. Her hobbies are counseling Royalty, addressing gender issues, redefining cultural strategies and posing for photographs with refugees.

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN the multi-platinum selling, five-time Grammy Award nominated entertainer dubbed "The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook" – is considered one of the premiere interpreters of classic American music. His 150 plus shows a year have included Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the London Palladium, as well as the White House and Buckingham Palace. The Sinatra Project – his latest CD from Concord Records which celebrates the musical sensibilities of "Old Blue Eyes" – earned Michael his fifth Grammy Award nomination in 2009. Feinstein is currently preparing the primetime PBS TV series, "Michael's Feinstein's American Songbook" in which he travels around the world to discover rare artifacts relating to Classic American Music. Starting in 2011, Feinstein will also serve as Artistic Director for the Carmel Performing Arts Center, a $160 million arts complex in Carmel, Indiana. He was recently named Director of American Popular Song by Jazz at Lincoln Center and currently hosts the "Standard Time" concert series at Carnegie Hall.The Power Of Two, his recent CD with Broadway leading man Cheyenne Jackson, was called "passionate, impeccably harmonized and groundbreaking" by The New York Times. Michael has written the score for two upcoming stage musicals: The Night They Saved Macy's Parade and The Gold Room, and is currently developing The Thomas Crown Affair into a Broadway musical with MGM Onstage. Michael is also preparing to score his second movie, The Big Valley, starring Susan Sarandon. The Library of Congress invited Michael to serve on the National Sound Recording Advisory Board.His Manhattan nightclub, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, presents the top talents in pop and jazz. Recently Michael also opened a London venue: Feinstein's at the Shaw. After moving to Los Angeles at age 20, Michael was introduced toIra Gershwin through the widow of legendary pianist-actor Oscar Levant. He became Gershwin's assistant for six years, granting him access to numerous unpublished Gershwin songs, which he has since performed and recorded. Michael is writing a new book about the songs of the Gershwin's as well as co-producing a movie about them with Oscar and Tony winning producer Marc Platt. Please visit www.michaelfeinstein.com. 

GREGORY BUTLER (Bodyguard) has spent the past 13 years with the hit Broadway revival of Chicago! Other credits include Raggedy Ann (Broadway), Evita, Martin Guerre, Applause (National Tours), Here Lies Jenny (Off-Broadway), The Trap, The Producers (Film) , “Life on Mars” (TV)  Happy to be here!

JODI CAPELESS (Stage Manager) Broadway Debut!  New York/National/Regional Credits; Les Miserables, Late Nite Catechism ( Helen Hayes Award Winner), Nunsense, Nunsense II, Gypsy, Falsettos, In Trousers,  and Side Show. Jodi lives in New Jersey with her partner Kimberly and their miraculous children Grace and Jack.

JON-PAUL MATEO (Bodyguard) Broadway: The Wedding Singer, Hot Feet. Regional: West Side Story, La Cage aux Folles, Jesus Christ Superstar, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Disney World, Universal Studios. Moulin Rouge, Paris. TV/Film: I Am Legend, Job. Thank you, Mommy, for always being my angel.

CHRISTOPHER DURANG (Author) Plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie award), Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie award and Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, Betty’s Summer Vacation (1999 Obie award), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (2002), Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), Adrift in Macao (music by Peter Melnick). Most recent: Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (2009) premiered at the Public Theatre, directed by Nicholas Martin.. Two summers ago the Roundabout presented a revival of his The Marriage of Bette and Boo, directed by Walter Bobbie. In the 80s he acted and sang in Das Lusitania Songspiel with Sigourney Weaver, and in the 90s with Julie Andrews in Sondheim’s Putting It Together, He’s acted in films such as Secret of My Success, The Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, and Mr. North. With John Augustine and Sherry Anderson, he performed his crackpot Chris Durang and Dawne cabaret multiple times, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. He’s a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. www.christopherdurang.com

TERRENCE FLANNERY Co-Conceiver) is a leading creative force behind many of Michael Feinstein's most acclaimed projects, including the Warner Brothers DVD The Great American Songbook; his album Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb, which was named one of "10 Best CDs of the Year" by USA Today; the Grammy Award nominated recording Michael Feinstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; and his New York nightclub Feinstein's at Loews Regency, which recently celebrated its 10th Anniversary. His role in Feinstein's career will be featured in the upcoming primetime PBS TV series "Michael's Feinstein's American Songbook." Flannery is on the board of the Michael Feinstein Foundation for the Education and Preservation of the Great American Songbook. Among their many programs is an annual competition designed to bring classic American Music to high school students. A successful business entrepreneur, running several Healthcare facilities in the Midwest, Flannery is a graduate of the University of Indiana.

LIZZIE SPENDER (Co-Conceiver)made her stage debut at 17 years old with the La Mama Theatre company at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. High spots of her acting career include Hound of the Baskervilles with Jeremy Brett, and Terry Gilliam's iconic movie 'Brazil'.  Her writing credits include two original films for the BBC, Hedgehog Wedding and These Foolish Things, and in 2005 she published a memoir entitled Wild Horse Diaries. For the last twenty years she has slaved away tirelessly behind the scenes in both a business and creative capacity for the ever versatile Dame Edna. Lizzie is proud to make her Broadway debut as co-creator of this show.