Douglas Hodge is this year's recipient of the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for LA CAGE AUX FOLLES.
Douglas Hodge makes his Broadway debut with La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. National Theatre: A Matter of Life and Death, Betrayal, Blinded by the Sun, Pericles, King Lear. West End: La Cage aux Folles (Playhouse), Guys and Dolls (Donmar/Piccadilly - Olivier nomination), Dumb Show (Royal Court - Evening Standard nomination), The Caretaker (Olivier nomination), Titus Andronicus (Globe), Three Sisters, No Man's Land (Almeida), Moonlight (Almeida / Comedy), The Collection/The Lover (Donmar), A Winter's Tale (RSC / Roundhouse), Coriolanus (Almeida), Hamlet (Bolton Octagon), Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep), The Norman Conquests (Nottingham Playhouse). TV: "Outnumbered," "Skins" (series 4), "Unforgiven," "Whistleblowers," "Spooks," "Lift," "Mansfield Park," "Redcap," "The Way We Live Now," "The Russian Bride," "Only Fools and Horses," "Dance," "Bliss," "Open Fire," "The Scold's Bridle," "It Could Be You," "True Love," "Men of the Month," "Middlemarch," "Anglo Saxon Attitudes," "A Fatal Inversion," "Capital City," "Behaving Badly." Film: Ridley Scott's new (as yet untitled) Robin Hood adventure, The Descent 2, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Vanity Fair, Diamond Skulls, The Trial, Salome's Last Dance and Saigon Baby.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES opened on Broadway to rave reviews on April 18. The production has been nominated for 11 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical (Kelsey Grammer), Best Actor in a Musical (Douglas Hodge), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Robin De Jesús), Best Direction of a Musical (Terry Johnson), Best Choreography (Lynne Page), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tim Shortall), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Matthew Wright), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Nick Richings), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Jonathan Deans) and Best Orchestrations (Jason Carr).
LA CAGE is the winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical (Douglas Hodge), Best Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson) and Best Costumes (Matthew Wright) and has also been nominated for seven Drama Desk Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical and three Drama League Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. This freshly reconceived production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES stars five-time Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer as Georges and Olivier Award-winner Douglas Hodge as Albin, and also stars Fred Applegate as Edouard Dindon/M. Renaud; Tony nominee Veanne Cox as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Chris Hoch as Francis; Elena Shaddow as Anne; A.J. Shively as Jean-Michel; with two-time Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas as Jacqueline; Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesús as Jacob; with Heather Lindell as Colette; Bill Nolte as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow as Etienne.
Also starring as the notorious and dangerous Cagelles are Nick Adams as Angelique, Sean A. Carmon as Phaedra, Nicholas Cunningham as Hanna, Sean Patrick Doyle as Chantal, Logan Keslar as Bitelle and Terry Lavell as Mercedes. The production also features Christophe Caballero, Todd Lattimore, Dale Hensley, Caitlin Mundth and Cheryl Stern.
