La Cage Aux Folles

ThisIsLondon.co.uk – By Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

True Love in La Cage aux Folles

Oh, the shock and horror of it! The golden rule for West End musicals requires that when true love breaks out, only practising heterosexuals should be involved. Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s La Cage aux Folles, which ran for five years on Broadway in the Eighties, ends, however, with the spectacle of its middle-aged French heroes sealing their fraught, long-time relationship with a head-on kiss.