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...Cage aux Folles...
First they convert their swimming pool into a theatre. Then, to inaugurate it, they fill it with transvestites. In true Adamsian style, La Cage aux Folles was staged as the first production in the Adams House Pool space. With its tidy sitcom plot, neatly resolved and well-acted, and its requisite cross-dressing humor and flamboyance, Harvey Fierstein's musical does justice to this theatre opening...
This theatre provides a zany place for La Cage aux Folles. The first musical number starts behind the audience, as the show girls (most of these really are women, not men--casting must have been a problem) descend from the elevated entrance balcony on two curved staircases. We are introduced to a small family of transvestite night club performers in St. Tropez: the proprietor and ringmaster Georges (Art Shettle), his diva husband, Albin or "Zsa-Zsa" (Michael Conte) and their motley crew of dancers and friends...
...sight. "It's gonna go," he mutters. His eyes are on the ground, dejected, but his hair dances in the fierce wind, and shadows flicker across his face. Suddenly he spies the cat -- a black beauty named, of all things, Santa Ana Winds -- and stuffs her in a small cage. The animal is frightened, moaning. Miller is not much better. He begins to cry. "I don't know what to do now," he says to a reporter. "Can you give me a ride back...
Music: Was John Cage a genius or a crackpot...