Is La Cage okay for 13ish year olds?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:37am

I'm working with someone to put together a trip this summer where there is a chance younger kids will be going. Is La Cage okay for them? I personally think it is, but I'm looking more for the consensus.

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:39am

Well it's about family. There might be some "suggestive" choreography from the Cagelles. And I believe this production uses the F word (once).

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:42am

I wouldn't subject anyone, children or adult, to La Cage Aux Folles.

To answer your question, though, there's nothing inherently inappropriate about it.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:50am

I think it's okay for a 13yo kid to see La Cage.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:50am

Haven't seen this production but the story itself is a good one that I think every 13 year old should be exposed to. Just make sure the adults are adult enough to answer any questions. These days, for the most part, I think kids will have less of a problem with it than the adults taking them to see it who ask if it is ok to take them to see it! JMO

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:57am

I too can't speak for this individual production, but the original source material is just fine for a 13 year old. It's more family-friendly than much of what's on prime time television.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 1:04am

^ Big time.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 1:07am

Thanks guys. I'll probably show her this thread tomorrow so if anyone else has anything let it rip.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 1:14am

Yeah, the themes are actually good conversation-starters for 13-year-olds.

The F-word is the one issue. It was more suggestive at the beginning of the run ("Oh, Jacqueline, you're such a star-fu... er, star-follower" -- cutting himself off at the beginning of the word), but now Hodge has started saying the whole phrase, I guess it gets a bigger laugh ("Oh, Jacqueline, you're such a star-f**ker... er, star-follower").

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 1:39am

Just read my signature below. That's what La Cage is all about!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 4:15am

I plan on bringing my 9 and 13 year olds this summer. They can't wait.

It's a great story with great values. Unless of course you have issues with gay people...then of course, it's even MORE appropriate.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 9:03am

..and ignore adamgreer.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 9:22am

It's perfect for a 13 year old.

[karen24]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 10:39am

I agree; I think kids that age or even younger need to see shows like this. I can't imagine anything in "La Cage" that would be disturbing for younger teens; I guess your real concern would be if any of their parents would object to the subject matter. Usually in these cases the kids are fine; it's the parents you have to worry about.

[nealb1]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 11:36am

Well said, Karen24!

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:51pm

And I failed. Thanks anyway guys.

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:51pm

What happened?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 12:58pm

She feels that the subject would put people off & we need 40ish people to be signed up & paid in about 2 weeks time to go.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 2:02pm

It's perfect for a 13 year old, but a follow-up discussion should be mandatory.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 2:49pm

Theaterfan4

Sorry about you missing the show. If your friend thinks La Cage would offend people, she may have her own personal problems she should sort out.

I have taken dozens of people over three decades to see the original movie and the musical and nobody has ever done anything other than laugh until they cry and then cry until they laugh.

Your friend seems like a sad human being.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 2:54pm

I don't really blame her. She's fine with the show & wants to see it herself. We are from a conservative cow town so it would be difficult to get the required amount here.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 3:02pm

I was going to ask where you lived. I was sensing that may have something to do with the group liking the show.

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 4:40pm

No. My parents took me to see this when I was 13 and it turned me gay. Don't do it.

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 4:59pm

Logical fallacy aside, if you tell your friends it's "based on that funny Robin Williams movie 'The Birdcage' that you see on TV all the time," they might be more open-minded.

It's one thing for them to openly say, "Ooh, a gay love story with a french title- sounds like it's not our cup of tea." But say "Robin Williams on Comedy Central," and you're drawing a new demographic that relates to it differently.

[quizking101]

Posted: 5/24/10 at 5:04pm

THE BIRDACGE is R-rated...
I seriously don't think that a "conservative cow town" will be please with Robin Williams somewhat-bawdy film that's more adult than the music itself.