Ceri Dupree: An Intimate Session with Dame Edna

The show is a loving homage to Barry Humphries’ wonderful creation, Dame Edna Everage, brought almost back to life by female impersonator extraordinaire Ceri Dupree. As the old music hall saying goes… “Before your very eyes”

“I’ve seen hundreds of men dress up as women over the years, most of them disastrously so. A handful of them get this particular art form right, Ceri Dupree is one of that handful” – The Times

CERI DUPREE

Ceri Dupree has been delighting audiences worldwide for almost 40 years. His unique talents have led him through musical theatre, pantomime, summer seasons, television and cabaret. There isn’t an audience that he hasn’t played to.

He has performed at various major venues throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and his birthplace Wales including numerous appearances at top class hotels like The Savoy, The Dorchester, The Churchill, The Landmark and Claridges.

Ceri has appeared in many West End nightclubs and his extensive repertoire of theatre shows include Hello Dolly, Rock Hard (60’s Tribute show), Hot Stuff, a 70s tribute show (five seasons and two national tours), The Ultimate Hen Party (season and national tour), The Wizard of Oz (as the most glamorous wicked witch!) and The Rocky Horror Show (as Frank-n-Furter of course!!!).

Ceri has written and produced his own shows Extraordinaire, Ladies of Legend, Brenda: A Star is Torn, Eager Divas, The Ceri Dupree Spectacular, Duprees a crowd!, Totally Frocked Up! and Missleading Ladies to name but a few.

One year saw him travel throughout the UK in cabaret, a one-man theatre tour and a series of corporate events with shows in Portugal, Johannesburg, Athens and Mykonos.

On television, Ceri wowed the audiences with his four-part television show for ITV called Ceri Dupree Unfrocked and has also appeared on numerous chat shows, light entertainment shows as well as hundreds of radio shows.

Over the years he has impersonated almost every major female star during his show Dupree’s Disney Diva’s.

Pantomime credits are plentiful and the last few years have seen him as Queen Passionella in Manchester, Birmingham, Plymouth, Nottingham and Cardiff for Crossroads Pantomimes with the great Joe Pasquale. Other tours include Fit For A Queen 2015, Eyecons 2016 and The Faaaaaaabulous Ceri Dupree Show in 2017. 2018, 2019 and 2021 was full of tours, cabaret, cruise work and pantomimes.

Future plans include a play about the late great Bette Davis, and a play based on the life of the legendary Danny La Rue (entitled Don’t Miss La Rue). Plans to open his own Cabaret/Restaurant, called Dupree’s are well underway, and his future ambitions are to work in Las Vegas and to play the lead in the musical La Cage Aux Folles.