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...musical La Cage aux Folles...
...with enthusiasm. If it does not, those onstage are subjected to the theatrical world's most terrifying noise: the sound of hundreds of yawns, politely stifled. So perhaps it is best not to spend too long trying to explain the attractions of the musical version of La Cage aux Folles, which opened on Broadway Sunday night. The chemistry is right, and it is hard to imagine an audience that will not leave the Palace Theater fairly glowing with delight...
...broad appeal of the show, which broke all house records during its seven-week trial run in Boston, is all the more extraordinary given its theme. Behind Jerry Herman's old-fashioned but tuneful score is a radical subject. La Cage aux Folles is a love story with a difference: it celebrates the romance of two middle-aged homosexual men, one of whom is a transvestite. Last year's Torch Song Trilogy, by Harvey Fierstein, was the first gay play to make it on Broadway, and La Cage, for which Fierstein wrote the book, seems almost certain...
...cycle's earlier entries, Krull offers battles, special effects and a hero and heroine with all the humanity of furniture on feet. But there are ingenuities of décor and character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this...
Prince played golf with the dashing Prince of Wales and, Hirohito later recalled, "first experienced freedom" after having been raised "like a bird in a cage." Upon his return, he permanently adopted the Western style of dressing, eating and sleeping. Even now the Emperor treasures his first purchase, a 1921 Paris Metro ticket...