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No fringe venue can generate as much first-night excitement as the Menier Chocolate Factory. This is partly because of the theatre's still-amazing track record of turning fringe fare into West End hits.
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Hodge plays Albin, drag queen and king of tantrums, at St Tropez nightclub La Cage Aux Folles.
Off-stage "she" is the high-maintenance boyfriend of Philip Quast's suave Georges, La Cage's debonair if slightly portly proprietor.
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Up until then, the evening belongs to a quality Quast and a rather brilliant Hodge who transmits Albin's sweet-hearted vulnerability and, during the show-stopping number 'I Am What I Am', his pride too.
