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prizes and even an honorary doctorate
along the way.
He studied law, philosophy and fine
arts at the University of Melbourne,
and wrote and performed songs and
sketches in university revues.
The son of an architect, Humphries
grew up in Camberwell, a Melbourne
suburb, on a subdivided golf course
that his father had helped to build. In
1956, he joined a group called the
Philip Street Revue Theatre and first
created the character of Edna Everage,
a Melbourne housewife, who became
internationally celebrated and evolved
into the popular Dame Edna. He also
appeared in several other productions,
including Waiting for Godot.
Bored by Australia — "the land
where nothing happens," he says —
Humphries went to London in 1959
and later was joined by more
Australians — a mixture of artists,
performers, writers and filmmakers.
He appeared in several London West
End shows, his most notable roles
being Fagin in Oliver (songwriter Phil
Collins played the Artful Dodger) and
the title role in Long John Silver.
Between engagements, he returned
to Australia to pursue a one-person
show featuring a wide range of charac-
ters — mainly Edna, whose popularity
was fast developing. Ironically,
although Humphries hasn't lived in
Australia for decades, Dame Edna is
now probably the most famous char-
acter Down Under.
Back in England, Humphries starred
in Housewife Superstar! at London's
Apollo Theatre --- and Edna took the
city by storm and achieved damehood,
a royal honor. He went on a world
tour, appeared on network television
specials in the United States and
picked up a British Academy Award
nomination for a film called The
Dame Edna Experience. This led to the
Broadway show and the current tour.
Humphries' talents go far beyond
the stage. He is one of Australia's best-
known landscape painters and sculp-
tors, and has written several books,
novels, poetry and plays. -
His autobiography, More, Please,
won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for biogra-
phy in 1993, and he is the subject of
two biographical studies. He was given
the Order of Australia in 1982, and
received an honorary doctorate from
Griffith University (Australia) in 1994.
He is married to Lizzie Spender, the
daughter of British poet Sir Stephen
Spender. D
Dame Edna: The Royal Tour comes
to Detroit's Music Hall March 20-
25. Show times are 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. $30-
$40. Tickets may be purchased at
the Music Hall and Fox Theatre
box offices and all Ticketmaster
locations. For information, call
(313) 983-6611. Charge by
phone at (248) 645-6666.
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