La Cage - Appropriate for Schools?

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:43pm

The French teachers over the past couple of years have taken their classes to see Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, La Boheme, and Beauty and the Beast. La Cage seems like a show you could take a French class. I asked the teacher about it and she said we probably wouldn't see it, because of the whole "drag queen" situation. She said she didn't think there was anything wrong with it (when she saw the movie, she said there was no nudity), but that our principal might have a problem with the whole idea of drag queens (Ugh!!! Who cares?!). She said she had been thinking about it, but never mentioned anything to our principal because of that. Anyways, is there really anything that wrong with it? Should our "principal" have anything to worry about besides drag queens? Note that we are high schoolers.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:47pm

Tell him to see Hairspray.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:48pm

Double post.

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[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:48pm

Our principal is an older African American woman. It seems these days she has problems with everything.

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[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:49pm

Perfect.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:51pm

I agree the show is not about being a drag queen nor the life of a drag queen.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:56pm

"Why would you take a french class to see it?"

Shhh....the title "La Cage aux Folles" is all it's gonna take to get us down there.

If our principal doesn't mind the drag queens. She gets on my nerves.

[dry2olives]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:57pm

Tell the principal it's about learning to appreciate the unconditional love a parent gives a child.

[WiCkEd4LyFfE]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:57pm

Our high school is seeing it in March for chorus

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 5:59pm

I wish our high school took us to see more shows, let alone any trips nowadays.

[Mythus]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:32pm

Beaverhausen, I love you. That's all I have to contribute to this conversation.

Oh, and this, which I grabbed from the insert to the cast recording - "In our incarnation, La Cage aux Folles is a love story, the tale of a marriage of 20 years almost ruined by a son's thoughtlessness."

In essence, La Cage is about love. I think everyone agrees on this. *wanders off to change signature to something La Cage-related*

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:48pm

The reason I love this show so much is because the drama teacher for my Musical Theatre class in high school brought the class to an excellent production at American Musical Theatre San Jose when I was a sophomore. Now this is a teacher who is a bit of a religious fanatic and walked out during RENT when Angel and Collins kissed. Well, she was absolutely in love with La Cage, as was the rest of the audience. It's not gratuitous and doesn't exploit stereotypes further than good taste allows. I suppose it all depends on the student and what they might see as inappropriate, but there isn't anything written into La Cage with the intention of shock value.

Oh, and Lee Roy Reams was a heavenly Albin. Good talent at AMTSJ. The next production was The 3 Musketeers starring Fred Inkley and a barely-known Sutton Foster.

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[Mythus]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:04pm

You saw Lee Roy Reams as Albin? I saw him as Roger DeBris, back in June, and I remember it vaguely occured to me that he would make a fantastic Albin.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:12pm

he WAS Albin IMHO! I can't picture anyone doing it better, but at the same time am convinced that Gary will find a way. Lee Roy was so natural and elegant in the role, and his entire "La Cage Aux Folles" sequence with the impressions and audience interaction was one of the only times I've seen a standing ovation mid-act.