Harvey Fierstein Tells NY1 'La Cage' May Return To Broadway Next Year

Harvey Fierstein has told NY1 that La Cage aux Folles will be returning to Broadway next year.

La Cage aux Folles is a 1973 French farce by Jean Poiret centring on confusion that ensues when the son of a Saint Tropez night club owner and his gay lover brings his fiancée's ultra conservative parents for dinner.

The original French production premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on February 1 1973 and ran for almost 1800 performances (an audience of one million[2]). The principal roles being played by Jean Poiret et Michel Serrault. In 1983, Poiret's play was adapted in the United States as a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and later refilmed in English as The Birdcage.

It played the Palace Theatre (New York, NY) in 1983 and Marquis Theatre (New York, NY) in 2004.

Variety spoke to Producer Sonia Friedman: "While Friedman's immediate pipeline of projects is extensive enough, the full list of properties to which she holds the rights is roughly four times longer. Chief among them is her current hit West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory production of 'La Cage aux Folles,' which she's 'very, very keen' to take to Broadway, largely to showcase Douglas Hodge in his star-making turn as drag hausfrau Albin.

'There'll be a nervousness because the recent Broadway revival wasn't a success," admits Friedman. 'But every American I've spoken to who has seen this one with Doug says it's exciting and different enough to work...'"

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