DAME EDNA IS COMING TO NEWCASTLE!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Well the latest news here at Goldlands is that I AM VERY EXCITED!!!
1. Dame Edna is performing her Eat, Pray, Laugh show here in sunny Newcastle June 29th through to July 1st as part of the Barry Humphries Farewell Tour!
2. I have looked up to Dame Edna for many many years - her understated fashion, her restrained ladylike ways - I have always said that one day she'd have to retire & Australia would need another high class diva!
3. I have Miss Sandra whipping up a costume RIGHT NOW to pay homage to this quintessentially Australian ambassador of haute couture & iconography!
You see, there are many similarities that Dame E & I share:
She has Madge, I have Cherry.
Madge had a sad loss of her own husband in New Zealand's boiling mud, whilst the couple were on their honeymoon, while Cherry lost something else quite vital to *coughs* men on one of her trips to Thailand. Let's not touch on that one!
Dame Edna has style, I have grace.
Her salutation is 'Hello Possums!' & mine has always been 'Hello Dollies!' (I think she copied me actually but who's to split hairs when she's this close to retirement?)
Her mother is incarcerated in a "maximum-security twilight home for the bewildered", Mother Mary Gold is in the Gold Peoples Home & my Dad Roald is STILL in the Cessnock Correctional Centre (due for parole again soon).
Her husband Norm died in 1998 & they had 4 children together (although Lois went missing as an infant from a campsite & they suspect a 'rogue koala' took her), whilst I have 7 husbands & NO children. Well, none that I know about but you do hear some stories where people find children they never knew they had so I live in fear really!
DEE (as I like to call her privately) has 'wisteria hued' hair & I have 'spun gold'.
She has petite gamine tootsies, & so do I.
We both sing like famous Australian crooners - she like Kevin Bloody Wilson, moi like Dame Joan!
See the parallels are frightening. I suppose the biggest difference is that I have never been a housewife & she knows what it feels like to wash dishes & starch shirts...something I will never know. Oh well.
See you at the Civic Theatre Friday, Saturday AND Sunday! I'll be the one wearing gladdies in my hair!
Love, sparkles, mauve wigs & 'face furniture',
Deniiiiiise xox
Reader Comments (2)
Can't wait Denise!! Dusting off my Dame Edna Glasses as we speak!!
And, dear Denise, you and Dame Edna are the same age.