10 Questions: An interview with Bunny Galore!
Today our spotlight falls on the absolutely fabi dabi, Bunny Galore! International octogenarian Bunny Galore is a classy act! Bunny is on at the Zoo Southside venue, Nicolson Street throughout the festival. Her one woman show, Bunny Galore LIVE AND SEDATED looks a treat to see, so let’s chat with Bunny, International Showgirl, Cabaret artist and Queen of the Flamingo Lounge to find out lots more about her and her show…
1. What inspired you to become an international star?
Well darlings, its hard to say when one had ones calling to la stage was….. but the old Drury Lane theatre had just burnt down and London was ablaze with talk of the latest thing, oranges!
2. What is your show about and what should the public expect from your show at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe?
It’s me becoming downloadable and blogging with the good people of this fair city. My roller coaster of a life through funny stories and songs! Plus there’s a guest appearance from my days of children’s television presenting and clips from my films and TV shows and my soap opera “Pantry Manor”.
3. What are your funniest and worst experiences performing in front of an audience?
Well I used to entertain the troops in Soho during the war, with an electric fan and wearing only feathers, slowly the fan would blow them off, although I never went all the way of coarse!… till one night a doodlebug had just gone off in Leicester square, and there was a power surge and sudden WOOOOOSSSH!!!
I lost the lot!
4. What was the last Fringe or Festival you performed at and what was it like?
Does the opening of The Crystal Palace count? …….No! Ok then this is my very very first festival! I’m so excited! I did come up last year to see my friend Faith Brown in her show BOYS IN THE BUFF purely to be supportive of coarse!
5. What’s your best advice for aspiring performers in your theatrical medium?
Always keep your hand on your penny! And never close your teeth when you smile.
6. Are there any dreams or goals that you have yet to fulfill?
Maybe to resist the plastic surgeons knife for a little longer…….
7. What is the best advice you have ever been given? And did you follow it?
As Mandy Rice Davis told me always get the money before removing any items of clothing!
8. What is the best book you have read and why do you like it?
Probable my autobiography “LOOK AT ME!!!”
9. Who is the person you most admire and why?
Well my absolute touch stone is still the one and only Diana Dors!
10. If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?
That they should make the watching of episodes of Noele Gordon in Crossroads compulsory.
