THE ODDEST COUPLE

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When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me... Something's got to give, and it's probably going to be the walls of the newly renovated Henry Miller's Theatre. Through a clerical error, Michael Feinstein, the Ambassador of the American Songbook (as well as the Impresario of Feinstein's at Loews Regency), and Dame Edna Everage, the Down Under Secretary of Whoopee, have been booked into the same Broadway theater, for a limited run opening March 1 8, to perform their respective oneperson shows. This spectacle, entitled All About Me, will be a clash of the titans—one a crazed, flower-flinging diva, the other a large Australian woman. Not since Glenn Gould met Leonard Bernstein and the New York Phil has there been such a potential conflagration, and, to add gasoline to the fire, the producers have brought in director Casey Nicholaw, who is insane, and the writer Christopher Durang, who is insaner. This may be the end of theater as we know it, but what a way to go.

DAVID HYDE PIERCE