DORIS, DOLLY AND THE DRESSING ROOM DIVAS Will Return With All-Female Cast
Gilded Balloon Patter House will present the five-star Fringe hit featuring JUDY GARLAND, LIZA MINNELLI & JULIE ANDREWS
This August will see the return of the much-loved Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas, presented by Gilded Balloon, a five-star, audience favourite hailed by critics and adored by Fringe-goers. Packed with razor-sharp wit, glorious harmonies and irreverent backstage tales, the show lifts the curtain on the lives, loves and legendary dressing rooms of Doris Day, Dolly Parton, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and “the filthiest Julie Andrews ever to grace the boards”.
Three make-up girls bitch, compete, harmonise and laugh as they entertain us with hilarious, heartbreaking, irreverent tales from the dressing rooms of Dolly Parton, Doris Day, Judy Garland, LIZA MINELLI & Julie Andrews; of backstage mammas, absent fathers, gay husbands, Flunked auditions and sublime singing.
The show returns by popular demand to Gilded Balloon Patter House for 2026 with an all-female cast and creative production team, starring the original cast Gail Watson, Frances Thorburn and Clare Waugh, written and directed by Morag Fullarton alongside musical director Hilary Brooks.
Writer and director Morag Fullarton said: “I can think of no greater compliment for the show than from a group of nurses who said “This show should be available on the NHS!” I am thrilled to be bringing the original cast back together as part of Gilded Balloon's brilliant Fringe programme.”
Karen and Katy Koren, Artistic Directors of Gilded Balloon, said: “We're delighted to bring Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We've had the pleasure of producing the show in the past in Edinburgh and we felt it was about time to bring this wonderful show back again. We hope audiences adore the show almost as much as we do. It's a riot!”
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