Madge Allsop Visits Palmerston North - Part 2

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Title

Madge Allsop Visits Palmerston North - Part 2

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Palmerston North City Library

Collection

Manawatū Heritage

Description

Madge Allsop - the fictional character created as the 'straight-woman' to Barry Humphries' outrageous female impersonation act Dame Edna Everage - was embodied by English Actress Patricia 'Emily' Perry. In 1994 while on tour with Humphries, Perry accepted an offer to return to her fictional hometown. A staple of the television celebrity talk show in the 1980s and 1990s, Viewers of the Dame Edna Everage show (and its variants) all knew about her 'sad, po-faced bridesmaid, Madge from Palmerston...

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Format

Video

Date created

1994-06-20

Creator

Television Production Centre, Massey University

URL

https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/fbb9540f-92ac-410a-b38c-220f2fd0b86e

Related subjects

broadway / emily perry / fictional characters: promotional activities / linton military camp / madge allsop / mayor rieger / mayoral garments / peter hawes: massey university writer in residence / rescue helicopter / soldiers

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