The Cage Aux Folles

Georges is the owner of the La Cage Aux Folles nightclub in St. Tropez. The club offers a drag show featuring its partner, Albin.
After twenty years of unmarried happiness, Georges and his partner Albin are faced with the most difficult challenge of their relationship to date: meeting the ultra-conservative in-laws of their son Jean-Michel's fiancée.
Albin has always raised Jean-Michel, Georges' biological son, like his own. Georges feels compelled to try to present a more “traditional” family to Jean-Michel's potential parents-in-law.
When Albin tries to adopt a male character by posing as Uncle Al.

Find the anthem "We Are What We Are" at the Tony Awards in 1984:

General information
  • Style : Romance, Comedy, Feel Good
  • Theme : Dragqueen, Homosexual, Love, Gay
  • year of creation : 1986
Music
  • Composer :Jerry Herman
  • Lyricist :Jerry Herman
  • Librettist : Harvey Fierstein
  • Author (other) : Jean Poiret
  • famous songs : "We Are What We Are" "(A Little More) Mascara" "With Anne on My Arm" "With You on My Arm" "Song on the Sand" "La Cage aux Folles" "I Am What I Am" " Masculinity" "Look Over There" "Counterpoint Cocktail" "The Best of Times" "Finale"
  • Famous performers : Gene Barry, George Hearn, Harvey Fierstein, Walter Charles, Keene Curtis, Van Johnson, Peter Marshall, Keith Michell, Jamie Ross, Lee Roy Reams, Denis Quilley, Jonathon Morris, Brian Glover, Julia Sutton, Phyllida Law, Philip Quast, Douglas Hodge, Gary Beach, Daniel Davis, Gavin Creel, Michael Mulheren, Linda Balgord, Ruth Williamson, Angela Gaylor, Robert Goulet, Denis Lawson, Paula Wilcox , Tracie Bennett, Kelsey Grammer, Veanne Cox.
kinships
  • Inspired by another work : The musical is based on the 1973 play of the same name Jean Poiret,
  • Exists in film : The Franco-Italian film La Cage Aux Folles is an adaptation of Poiret's play. Edouard Molinaro's film released in cinemas in 1978 and we find Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault there.
Awards
  • Appointments and Awards : In 1984, the production won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical Comedy (against Sunday in the Park with George, nominated the same year) as well as 3 Drama Desk Awards.
  • Number of years on display : 4
  • Number of performances : 1761
  • anecdotes : In 1986, the London production was cut short because the producers were not comfortable portraying the lives of gay men on stage in the wake of the AIDS crisis. The song "I Am What I Am" has become a Gay Pride anthem!
Currently on stage