The beloved Australian comedian bids adieu to show business after 60 years of performance with Eat, Pray, Laugh!, which runs until January 5th, 2014.

The production is set to be a sell-out, with fans from around the world keen to see famous characters such as Dame Edna and Les Patterson live for the last time.

Known for its fun, unpretentious approach to five-star luxury, The Athenaeum is perfect for guests who want to combine the show with a London visit.

The special Eat, Pray, Laugh – Stay package is priced at £452 (approximately $723 --including VAT and booking fees) for an overnight stay for two in a Superior room, along with two theater tickets (a £95 value) on various dates throughout the show, Gladioli – Dame Edna’s favorite flowers—in-room, full English breakfast, complimentary soft drinks and snacks from the mini-bar and complimentary Wi-Fi. 

“As huge fans of Dame Edna, we are delighted to partner with what will be another sell-out run of the acclaimed production.”  says Steve Margo, Entertainment Sales Director at The Athenaeum.  “Eat, Pray, Laugh – Stay at The Athenaeum embraces the glitz and kitsch glamour of the show, offering guests a playful and delicious insight into Barry Humphries’s wonderful and quirky world.  We can’t wait.”

The Athenaeum, London

Located in fashionable Mayfair—across from Green Park, just steps from Buckingham Palace and the best shopping in London—The Athenaeum is a family-owned and family-friendly five-star hotel known for its exterior vertical garden wall and the Apartments at The athenaeum.   The 18 one-bedroom apartments are ideal for business travelers and families, offering overnight and long-term guests the space, convenience and privacy of their own home along with all the five-star amenities of the hotel. The athenaeum has 164 bedrooms including 12 suites, 18 townhouse apartments and a rooftop suite, it also features the new athenaeum Spa; the Restaurant; the Garden Room, home to an award-winning afternoon tea; and the Whisky Bar, which offers the most extensive selection of whiskies in London as well as their own whisky sommelier.   Other hotel highlights include complimentary Wi-Fi, babysitting, minibar snacks and meals for children.  Further information can be found at www.athenaeumhotel.com or info@athenaeumhotel.com, 116 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 7BJ.  The toll free reservation number is 1-800-335-3300.  Travel professionals may book via GDS (chain code YX).

T&Cʼs:

-    Tickets available for November 15th-17th, 21st-24th and 28th-30th

-    December 1st, 5th, 6th, 10th-12th, 20th-22nd, 24th, 26th-29th, and 31st, January 1st-5th

-    Subject to availability. Must be booked a minimum of 7 days in advance   
  

Packages start at £452 (Inc. V A T and booking fees) and includes:

-    Accommodation for two people in a Superior room

-    Gladioli in rooms

-    Full English breakfast for two people

-    Tickets valued at £95 each

-    Complimentary soft drinks and snacks from the mini-bar

-     Free Wi-Fi  

-     Pre-theatre Barry Humphries cocktail and canapé experience £25 per person –

-      No amendments or cancellations

-       Booking is subject to availability

Eat Pray Laugh

Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries’ Farewell Tour Directed by Simon Phillips

Global star and legendary entertainer Barry Humphries, whose creations include iconic Australian housewife Dame Edna Everage and the exuberant cultural attaché, Sir Les Patterson, takes his final bow across the UK with his acclaimed farewell tour, Eat, Pray, Laugh!

Barry Humphries has already bid farewell to audiences in Australia and New Zealand, receiving rapturous standing ovations and reviews, with further performances added across the tour to meet demand.

Eat, Pray, Laugh! will give audiences around the country a final chance to see Humphries - one of the world’s sharpest wits and finest comic talents, and a gigastar of stage and TV over the last 60 years - as well as allow the maestro to thank his many fans.

Act One of Eat, Pray, Laugh! features gentle, grandfatherly Sandy Stone, perhaps Humphries’s greatest creation, and the outrageous Les Patterson. But  their appearances, according to Dame Edna, “are just a bit of foreplay, really, before I make an orgasmic appearance in Act Two!”

Surrounded by spectacular sets and gorgeous and talented dancers, Dame Edna promises to ‘empower’ her audiences with what she describes as “a meditation on loss, gender, climate change, gay marriage and ethnicity.”