Five-time Emmy Award® winner Kelsey Grammer makes his Broadway musical debut alongside Olivier winner Douglas Hodge in this funny and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together... stay fabulous... and above all else, stay true to themselves. La Cage aux Folles, the splashy, high-kicking musical comedy, comes to Broadway this spring in a gloriously reconceived production that took London by storm. La Cage features Jerry Herman’s Tony Award-winning score, with such fabulous songs as "I Am What I Am," "The Best of Times" and "Song on the Sand," and a Tony Award-winning book by Harvey Fierstein.
The reductions in this stripped-down version, Broadway’s latest import from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, seem especially stark as it follows closely a 2005 revival that matched the opulent 1985 Tony-winning original sequin for sequin. Yet unlike the shrunken revivals of other big Broadway musicals, this one makes sense. Terry Johnson’s smart, tight, rough-edged and slightly tacky production gets closer to the sort of scene one might actually find in a transvestite club on the French Riviera.
Terry Johnson’s superb revival is tighter and bolder. This La Cage aux Folles is no longer breaking ground; it’s planting new crops and watching them bloom. I would never have thought that we needed another revival of this musical so soon after the last one’s flames flickered out. Yet somehow this familiar show blows the roof off the Longacre Theatre, and makes a case for La Cage as a classic of American musical comedy.
1983 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1986 | West End |
London Production West End |
1987 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
2004 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
2006 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
2008 | West End |
West End Transfer West End |
2010 | Broadway |
Broadway Transfer Broadway |
2011 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
2023 | West End |
West End |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Douglas Hodge |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Lynne Page |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Matthew Wright |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Terry Johnson |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Robin De Jesus |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | La Cage Aux Folles |
2010 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical | Jonathan Deans |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Douglas Hodge |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Matthew Wright |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Terry Johnson |
2010 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | 0 |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Lynne Page |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Matthew Wright |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Terry Johnson |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Nick Richings |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Jason Carr |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Robin De Jesus |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Douglas Hodge |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Kelsey Grammer |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Barry and Fran Weissler |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Sonia Friedman Productions |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Menier Chocolate Factory |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Harvey Weinstein |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Nederlander Presentations, Inc |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Jerry Frankel/Bat-Barry Productions |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Allen Spivak |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Olympus Theatricals |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Independent Presenters Network |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Arlene Scanlan/John O'Boyle |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Raise the Roof 4 |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Richard Winkler/Bensinger Taylor/Laudenslager Bergère |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Matthew Mitchell |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Broadway Across America |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Bob Bartner/Norman Tulchin |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Edwin W. Schloss |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | David Babani |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Tim Shortall |
2010 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Jonathan Deans |
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