I SAW A CRACKING SHOW LAST WEEK - for the second time in a month it was that good. La Cage aux Folles, a musical about a gay nightclub on the Riviera and the family problems of two gay parents and a straight son wishing to marry the daughter of an anti-gay goverment official! Great fun and outstanding music by Jerry Herman who wrote, Hello Dolly, Mame,  Mack and Mabel and other wonderful Broadway musicals. An excellent production that could win awards - at The Playhouse Theatre.

But in this new production there is an excellent vanish of the lead singer covered by an umbrella of boa fans of the chorus line with only her hand projecting through the feathers Excellent and caught everybody including me off guard. And another instantaneous change of a male dancer for a girl covered by a swirl of smoke as he rotated in a dance routine. Beautifully done with real artistry. I don’t know if there was a magic consultant behind these incidental effects but the whole production has some excellent and imaginative presentation ideas that make this a top show that’s playing until 10th January.

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