LA CAGE AUX FOLLES to Open at Longacre Theatre April 18, 2010; Previews Begin April 6

[Rob]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 8:43am

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[CONAries]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 8:53am

With the INCREDIBLE Douglas Hodge as Albin, you guys will ADORE him!

[Smaxie]

Posted: 9/14/09 at 9:54am

Coincidentally, Mark Shenton wrote on his Stage Blog this morning about revisiting this production at the Playhouse to catch the final performance of Roger Allam and Philip Quast. (John Barrowman and Simon Burke begin performances tonight). Shenton makes a persuasive point about why this show seems to be more salient than it was before:

"Just as you get a deeper pleasure each time you return to a favourite restaurant (and maybe even eat the same dish), so I find that my enjoyment of particular shows knows no bounds. Each time I go back I find new pleasures and enjoy previous ones again, too. And theatre, being a living organism, nothing is ever the same twice in any case? or even the same for the twentieth time.

And La Cage always speaks to me with a particular resonance. Not just in its defiant cry for standing up for being who you are - just the thing I began by saying, of course, that I go to the theatre to avoid! - but also for its portrait of a different construction of a family unit having equal validity to any other. I interviewed John Barrowman, who takes over in La Cage from tonight, in yesterday's Sunday Express, and he spoke openly about his own long-term relationship with Scott Gill, an architect, and then told me: "I want to claim the family values term back for us - our family values are just as relevant and just as strong as someone else's, except ours are slightly different, but if you really look at it, they're not that far off."
Shenton on La Cage

Updated On: 9/14/09 at 09:54 AM