The Eighteenth Generic Broadway Friday Afternoon Post

As I am still squee’ing over my Allan Carr book, you’re stuck with his 1983 production of La Cage Aux Folles, also known as the musical that beat the best musical of all time, Sunday in the Park With George, at the Tonys that year. Which is…wrong. Not because there’s anything terribly wrong with La Cage, of course. Just…finishing the hat. How you have to finish the hat? How there’s a little space in the way like a window? And you’re always turning back too late from the GRASS or the STICK or the DOG or the LIGHT?

The production had a tremendous number of hurdles to overcome, including straight castmembers who refused to share the elevator with the gay chorus boys due to free-floating AIDS paranoia, and a complete crash-and-burn in London’s West End.