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High camp, gloriously sparkly and provocative costumes, plush drapery, champagne; the Menier Chocolate Factory has been transformed into fabulously frilly transvestite revue bar La Cage Aux Folles for the theatre’s latest musical offering. Matthew Amer joined the first night audience for this comic musical tale of family drama, enduring love and being true to yourself.
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To Hodge's scene stealing Albin, Philip Quast delivers a cleverly understated, reserved, but deeply loving Georges, Albin's partner and the owner of La Cage. The pair complement each other in life and on the stage.
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But it is the central combination of Hodge and Quast, under the subtle direction of Terry Johnson, that gives a musical which could so easily escape into the realms of cheap vulgarity and stereotype, a beating heart. In their relationship, the truth of an enduring love cuts through the glitter and the glamour, providing a warm ‘aaaah’ to go with all the ‘oohs’ and ‘ohs’ of the club scenes.
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