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La Cage aux Folles is a truly wonderful piece of theatre full of queer joy – review

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We’ve been waiting a long time to see La Cage aux Folles – this is the first major production London has seen since the 2008 West End revival – and we had to wait even longer than anticipated, as last week’s press night was sadly rained off after about 45 minutes.

Thankfully we were able to make a return visit to the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre earlier this week to review the show and it fully lived up to expectations – this production is a truly wonderful piece of queer theatre.

For those unfamiliar, this iconic 1983 musical – book by Harvey Fierstein, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, and based on Jean Poirot’s play – broke new ground by being the first Broadway show to focus on the lives of a gay couple, and gave the community queer anthem I Am What I Am.

It subsequently swept the Tony Awards, picking up Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, and has become a seminal work in the queer canon.

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