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Bargains – and I mean real bargains – are hard to come by these days. So I was knocked out by the www.whatsonstage.com deal which offered dinner and a ticket to see La Cage aux Folles at London's Playhouse theatre for just £23.50.
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The show is a blast, starring two Les Misérables veterans Philip Quast and Roger Allam (both were excellent Javerts) as the old-time gays who live in St Tropez, the former is owner of nightclub La Cage and the latter its star attraction as drag diva Zaza.
Allam, who took over from Graham Norton, may not be the ideal build for Zaza but he mines all the sensitivity beneath the enigmatic glamour and sequins and delivers a show-stopping 'I Am What I Am'. The pair make perfect partners.
