La Cage aux Folles occurs as French play, a 1978 French-Italian film and a 1983 Broadway musical.

a plot revolves as much as a homosexual few - Georges, the creator of a St. Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Georges' son brings home his fiancee's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

A original play was written by Jean Poiret and starred Poiret and Michel Serrault. A film, directed by Edouard Molinaro, starred Ugo Tognazzi instead of Poiret, but retained Serrault. The shrewd farce, it won over audiences by using uproarious sight gags, uproarious complications, & the caring & poignant guide. It run run over a year at a Paris Theater, an art home within New York City, when well as theaters throughout a united states, within each urban & rural areas. For years it remained a virtually all successful foreign film to exist as freed in the United States, and it yet spawned ii sequels, neither when clever or even amusing.

Around 1996, the extremely successful Western version entitled The Birdcage, directed by Mike Nichols, was released. It was placed within South Beach in Miami, and starred Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as the few, by having Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski in supporting roles.

Inside 1983, composer Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly!, Mame), playwright Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy), and director Arthur Laurents (Gypsy) united to collaborate on a musical version for Broadway. The gay-themed plan was risky around these early years of the AIDS epidemic, but a team - 100% homosexual men - felt it was a tonic needful by each victims suffering from either a unwellness and victims world health organization were homophobic due to its threat.

Although La Cage was Broadway's foremost "homosexual" musical, it was nevertheless the mainstream production. Laurents didn't allow his lead characters such as a peck on the cheek for fear that he may offend his audience. It was an old-demode production in the better feel - elaborate costumes by veteran Theoni V. Aldredge, exquisite sets, glamorous chorus girls (albeit most of them actually boys), and a lushly romantic score.

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Competition for the 1984 Tony Awards in the musical categories was primarily between La Cage and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. Traditional won retired across avant-garde, equally evidenced per total of awards accorded La Cage (view complete listing in the image below). Inside his acceptance speech, Herman noted there was however the place in Broadway for "the melodic musical."

The Broadway revival, starring Gary Beach (The Producers) and Daniel Davis (television's The Nanny), started previews in November 11, 2004.

1984 Tony Award Wins and Nominations
Best Musical (winner) Best Book of the Musical theater (Harvey Fierstein) (winner) Best Original Score (Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman) (winner) Best Actor around the Musical (George Hearn) (winner) (Gene Barry) (candidate) Best Costume Project (Theoni V. Aldredge) (winner) Best Lighting Project (Jules Fisher) (campaigner) Best Choreography (Scott Salmon) (candidate) Best Counsel of the Musical (Arthur Laurents) (winner)

See Also
The Birdcage