OOOOOOOUUCCCHHH!! LA CAGE @ 38.5%!! — Page 2

Thanks for bringing up Little Shop hypertruffle! Leave Jerry Zaks alone!! He is a great director!

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"The worst part is that they do not even have any discount coupons floating around the internet at the moment..."

They are falling into the Rosie O'Donnell Taboo trap.

Attention producers: release tickets to the papering services. If the seats are going empty, you can at least be kind to your actors and let them play to a fuller house.

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OHHH and the costumes in this production especially for the cagelles are laughable compared to the origional.

I agree, Goth. Zachs seems to be a spent force.

For all its terrific choreography, and the talents of the Cagelles, LA CAGE is still considered to be a "gay" show, and that makes it a tough sell to many - Remember how the original production had to replace the original red drawing with a photograph of a real biological female chorus girl giving a high-kick to give it a box-office boost?

I still think this revival was an oppertunity lost to make Albin an angrier, tougher drag artist (In that recent interview at Broadway.com, Denis O'Hare talked about his fierce take on Albin which terrified the unnamed powers-that-be, presumaby Herman & Fierstien). But by keeping Albin mild and wussy much of it plays like a gay minstrel show - Moran & Mack in pink-face.

CHARITY may be a much weaker revival all around, but the TV commercials stress lots of girlie T&A (making it much sexier than it really is). To paraphrase Al Dubin:

"Who writes the words and music for all the girly shows?
No one cares and no one knows.
Who is the handsome hero the villan always frames?
But who cares if they got a plot or not as long as they got a lot of dames!
What do you go for, go see a show for?
Tell the truth, you go to see those beautiful dames!"

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Updated On: 6/6/05 at 06:54 PM

I missed Denis last night. A lot.

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Was I imagining this? I thought when they showed the clip from La Cage, and they showed that scene where everyone is clapping through "The Best of Times", Daniel Davis was edited out. The camera sweeps the line up to Gary Beach, then there's a break and it comes in again with Gavin Creel on out. Georges was standing to the right of him, but he's been clipped out - although you can see him clapping. And I'm almost positive that's Davis' La Cage. I saw that shot on the clip on Broadway.com (besides on stage). And the Broadway.com clip is entire. It was kind of shocking.

Did anyone else see that? Maybe I imagined it. Could they be that petty?

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Lets let this production die... and in 10 yrs... hopefully they will actually rewrite the show for the times and cast it properly and hire a competant director and an inovative choreographer and then we'll have a wonderful revival!!!

Rumor has it that they're going to revive By Jeeves there.

there is another Rumor that Goulet is trying to license 700 Sundays... so that after Billy Crystal leaves Bway, Goulet can "READ" the show.

If only they all knew their pitch...

Just a little sidebar....

To say that "One thing IS BETTER THAN or WORSE THAN" is by definition a comparison.

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I will? Why? Did a decent show that actually sells tickets move into the Marquis??

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Tonys mean nothing if there are only 50 people in the house every night.

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