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The Menier has acquired a high reputation for its musicals, with revivals of Sondheim's sophisticated Sunday in the Park with George and the deliciously schlocky Little Shop of Horrors both transferring to the West End.
I have little doubt that this wildly comic and touching revival of La Cage aux Folles will follow them there.
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The titular Cage aux Folles is a drag nightclub on the French Riviera. Its suave owner-manager and emcee, Georges (Philip Quast), and its most outrageous star Albin (Douglas Hodge) have been living in monogamous contentment for 20 years, but early in life, Georges fathered a child.
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Quast is superb too as the far less flamboyant Georges, lending the show an unexpected dignity, and with the exception of insufferably bland performances from the actors playing the heterosexual love interest, La Cage aux Folles proves a constant pleasure, and exactly the winter warmer the dark nights of January require.
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