
Last week, the pianist and singer Michael Feinstein announced plans for a solo Broadway show called All About Me, to begin previews on March 13 and open on March 30 (at a Shubert theater to be announced). The only problem? A rather unnecessary-sounding similarity to Dame Edna Everage’s upcoming Broadway show, It’s All About Me. “While I was very surprised to learn of the similarity of titles, I’ve always been a fan of Dame Edna, and I wish her all the best,” noted Feinstein in the press release for his show. Today, Dame Edna came out with an announcement as well, noting that her show would be starting previews on March 6 and opening on March 23 (at a Shubert theater to be announced), and adding this somewhat pointed rejoinder: “It’s All About Me is my title. While I was saddened to hear that Mr. Feinstein did not heed my sage advice to change the title of his show, I’m overjoyed to hear that he at least took my suggestion to open his show after mine. I’m sure Mrs. Feinstein is very proud of her son.” Watch the fur and gladiolas fly! (Or, of course, it could all just be a publicity stunt.)
To make matters worse, Time Out has learned of several other projects currently slated for this spring that can only add to the confusion. These include:
•About Me It’s All: Frank Oz stars as Jedi master Yoda, the galaxy’s most powerful spinach wonton, in a Star Wars–themed solo show inspired by Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking.
•All About Meese: John Goodman stars as Reagan attorney general, antiporn crusader and right-wing hit man Edwin “Ed” Meese III.
•All About Meerkats: The Lion King’s popular Timon gets his own musical spin-off, in which he must get his conservative family of African critters to accept his same-sex, interspecies life partner, Poombah.
•All About the Benjamins: A transhistorical fantasia weaves together stories about founding father Benjamin Franklin, 19th-century English prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, cultural theorist Walter Benjamin and Law & Order hunk Benjamin Bratt.
•Hall About Mee: The legendary English director Sir Peter Hall lectures Broadway audiences about the sprawling, intertextual work of postmodern playwright Charles Mee.
•All About Eve: On dark nights of their respective shows, Everage and Feinstein duke it out in an adaptation of the classic 1950 movie, with Dame Edna as the great stage star Margo Channing and Feinstein as her grasping understudy. Fasten your seat belts: It’s going to be a bumpy March!








