Friday, Dec. 17, 2004
Dame Edna - Back With A Vengeance!
With one-person shows all over Broadway this fall, Australian comic Barry Humphries (in his second visit to Broadway as the primly irreverent matron Dame Edna) at least knows how to fill up the stage: enlist the paying customers. Humphries' audience-participation stunts are inventive, his ad-libbing expert, and his manhandling of the crowd surprisingly free of showbiz smugness.