'La Cage aux Folles' with Goulet review on bway.com

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:24pm

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=511720

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:30pm

Saw him on the News promoting the show & he looks like death warmed over. He has to be bad in person

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:45pm

He doesn't move very swiftly, but honestly, his voice far makes up for Anything he may faulter with. The Bway.com review, while mixed is quite positive on many aspects of the show. Here's to hoping for more of the same or better!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 8:15pm

AP:

"If any singer can wrap his voice around a glorious Jerry Herman melody, it's Robert Goulet, one of the last booming baritones of Broadway's Golden Age.

Goulet gets a chance to do just that in the current revival of "La Cage aux Folles," having replaced Daniel Davis as one half of a gay couple who run a saucy drag nightclub on the French Riviera.

And if the star __ at age 71 -- isn't as physically spry or as verbally nimble as he was in the glory days of "Camelot," which was his Broadway debut 45 years ago, no matter.

There's an affable, self-deprecating charm to Goulet's performance that gives this production of "La Cage" a gentle, heartwarming lift. You actually believe he is Georges, the well-meaning father of a heterosexual son who wants dad to hide his gay relationship so the offspring can impress his incipient in-laws.

In an age of frantic, aggressive musical-theater performances, the laid-back Goulet doesn't push. His relaxed attitude nicely complements Gary Beach, who portrays Albin, the more flamboyant, hyper member of this union. Together, they make a perfect husband and wife, and "La Cage," which has a well-crafted book by Harvey Fierstein, milks this unusual family relationship for all its worth."

AP REVIEW