Jean Poiret. Number of Acts. Best Musical First Produced. Multiple Settings. Cast Size. Orchestra Size. Samuel French. Ideal for. Casting Notes. Mostly male cast Includes adult, mature adult, young adult, late teen characters. Synopsis Georges is the owner of the La Cage Aux Folles nightclub, which features a drag show starring his partner and the love of his life, Albin.
Lead Characters. Log in to add to your bookmarks! One was, that what I felt was long missing from Broadway musicals were songs that people could sing and wanted to sing.
And the other thing was emotion. And what I felt and what I do feel is that most Broadway musicals are all icing and very little cake. And here, thanks to Harvey and Jerry, we have cake with human ingredients. According to Harvey Fierstein, director Arthur Laurents had a unique way of letting the writers know when he was dissatisfied with their work.
Interview Fierstein: Arthur has a certain lovely quality of honesty. I left many meetings in tears. I mean, as soon as I got outside I let the tears go. The fact that you all came together so well makes your work so cohesive. Interview Herman: I wanted to have a romantic theme that went through the show.
So that was the second thing I wrote. I simply presented it to Harvey and they threaded it through the show. But, in essence you are correct, and away it went! I want those two men to sit at the table and NOT move. Too often there is too much movement during a song. Rely on the material. And that moment is dynamite for the audience, and all you have is two actors sitting at a table, acting what happens to be a scene and a song.
And we had this large, gay audience come in, which was the first time we could watch the gay reaction to it — or I could watch that. And as the song went on and the dignity of that song and the dignity of the way those two men played that scene, they started sitting up in their chairs with such pride to see two men singing this beautiful love song to each other.
They were tearing the chairs out of the theater. It was an incredible moment of pride. Alternate versions Showtime presented both subtitled and dubbed versions many years ago. The dubbed version had scenes that weren't in the subtitled version. User reviews 44 Review. Top review. Better than its remake. This was unfortunate because that meant the plot was already familiar to me. However, it was even more hilarious than its American version. The characters in the American version are nearly exact duplicates of their French counterparts.
Somehow, the whole movie appears funnier in its original French even though I don't speak French. American audiences may like the remake better because the script was rewritten so that its humor was more topical.
For instance, Gene Hackman's character is an obvious farce of Bob Dole, who was a prominent republican leader at the time. The French version contains a more generic conservative versus liberal dialogue. However, if you can stand reading the translations, La Cage Aux Folles is well worth your time.
I enjoyed it thoroughly. Details Edit. Release date May 13, United States. France Italy. Shows People Theatres Awards. La Cage aux Folles. Musical Comedy Original Broadway. Opening Date. Closing Date. External Links. Palace Theatre Aug 21, - Nov 15, This production was hoping to transfer to the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
However, the production did not transfer to the Hellinger, and closed November 15, , before Reams and Barrett could start performances. Nederlander and Stewart F. Produced by Allan Carr , Kenneth D. Greenblatt , Stewart F. Lane , James M. Nederlander , Martin Richards , Marvin A.
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