Yasmena Bags Featured in Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance!

Tony Award-Winning Megastar Returns To Broadway With The Most Innovative Handbag On Earth! Official Opening Night is November 21 at the Music Box Theatre

New York December 6, 2004 -- Dame Edna Everage will be wearing her Yasmena bag each night for her Broad-way show, Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance! In addition, she will also be giving out a Yazzy Bag to a hand picked audience member. We are pleased to be a part of this comedic Broadway production, especially since Dame Edna herself selected the Yasmena as her handbag of choice. Emily Blumenthal, creator of the Yasmena Bag exclaimed.

The Yasmena bag can make any event feel like a red carpet premiere and are available on www.ebags.com/yasmena for $80 to $100. In addition, through a special promotion from Yasmena and ebags.com, fans of Dame Edna can receive discounted tickets to Dame Edna: Back With A Vengance! by clicking on the banner on the webpage above.

Dame Edna, the incomparable international housewife, megastar and guru, storms back to Broadway in her all new extravaganza, DAME EDNA: Back With A Vengeance! The official opening night performance is Sunday, November 21 at the historic Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). The limited engagement will run through March 13, 2005. Following the national success of her previous life-enhancing and much loved shows which have been buried beneath an avalanche of international awards, Dame Edna returned to her private estate in her native Australia to review the state of the world from her unique point of view. During that time she crafted her latest offer-ing, which is set in an all-new theatrical infrastructure. Edna will glow from the stage in a series of never-before-seen gowns. She will sing, dance, give psychic readings to astonished audience members, offer marriage counseling and perhaps even heal, promises Tony Award-winning production designer Brian Thomson of this brand new show.

The Yasmena bag is the ultimate patented handbag and far surpasses the wristlet trend. The Yasmena bag wears like a bracelet however has an additional ring handle that allows women to wear their handbag with comfort and ease - without the awkwardness of clutching, grabbing or hanging. Yasmena has become the celebrity and red carpet must-have fashion meets function bag. When the wristlet trend is over - the Yasmena bag will still be here, as every woman will always need a little bag to 'hold onto' when she goes out.

Launched in 2000 and acquired in 2004, Yasmena is part of the Westport Corporation, a privately held company based in Pine Brook, New Jersey with a showroom on West 34th Street in New York. Westport is currently among the country's leading manufacturers and distributors of ladies and men's personal leather goods trading under its proprie-tary brand, Mundi, as well as various licenses including Perry Ellis and Kenneth Cole. In addition to wallets, Westport markets a variety of ladies and men's business cases, handbags and accessories.

Contact:
Westport Corporation:
Sales: Emily Blumenthal, 800-457-7782, e-mail protected from spam bots

Yasmena Inc.:
Press/Media: Astra P.S. Dorf, Press Relations, 347-528-5559, e-mail protected from spam bots

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