Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage have been conducting a good-natured feud via their publicists over the last few days, ever since the announcement that Dame Edna will be returning to Broadway this March in a one-woman show titled Dame Edna: It’s All About Me. Unfortunately, pianist and singer Michael Feinstein is also returning to Broadway with a one-person show in March, titled All About Me.

In a press release sent out yesterday announcing the opening date of Dame Edna’s show, she took the time to say, “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.”        

The next day, Feinstein shot back (via his PR company) with, “Titles are not copyrightable. I wish Ms. Edna well. I’ve heard of her.”

And the dizzying round of emails clogging in boxes around the city continued a few hours later with another entry from Dame Edna, saying, “Someone purchased a CD of Mr. Feinstein’s at a flea market in Australia and re-gifted it to me recently. I’m impressed at how often he sings on key.”

But really, isn’t the most interesting thing about this whole feud the fact that anyone thinks that both Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein can still fill a Broadway house?

Photo by Greg Gorman.