La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)

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La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production) is the 1983 Tony Award–winning musical comedy about a gay couple who run a drag nightclub in Saint-Tropez, celebrated for its groundbreaking LGBTQ+ representation and the anthem "I Am What I Am."

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instanceOf Broadway musical production
awardReceived Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Costume Design
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Original Score
awardYear 1984
basedOn La Cage aux Folles (play)
linked to: La Cage aux Folles
basedOnWorkBy Jean Poiret
bookBy Harvey Fierstein
choreographer Scott Salmon
closedOnBroadway 1987-11-15
composer Jerry Herman
costumeDesigner Theoni V. Aldredge
countryOfOrigin United States
director Arthur Laurents
featuresSong I Am What I Am
The Best of Times
We Are What We Are
genre LGBTQ+ musical
musical comedy
hasTheme family acceptance
gay rights
identity and self-acceptance
language English
lightingDesigner Beverly Emmons
locatedIn New York City
lyricist Jerry Herman
musicalDirector Donald Pippin
nominatedFor Tony Award for Best Choreography
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design
notableFor anthem I Am What I Am
groundbreaking LGBTQ+ representation on Broadway
openedOnBroadway 1983-08-21
orchestrator Don Pippin
originalCastMember Jay Garner
John Femia
John Weiner
Lynette Perry
Merle Louise
Walter Charles
William Thomas Jr.
originalLeadActor Gene Barry
George Hearn
originalLeadActorRole Albin / Zaza
linked to: Albin

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previewsBegan 1983-08-05
producer Allan Carr
Barry K. Brown
Cy Feuer
Ernest H. Martin
Fifi Oscard
Kenneth D. Greenblatt
Martin Richards
Morton Swinsky
runLengthPerformances 1761
setDesigner David Mitchell
setting Saint-Tropez
subject gay couple
theatre Palace Theatre (Broadway)

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Arthur Laurents directedStageProduction La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)
Allan Carr notableWork La Cage aux Folles (Broadway production)
linked to: La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)
Peter Howard workedOn Broadway production "La Cage aux Folles"
linked to: La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)
The Best of Times includedIn La Cage aux Folles original cast recording
linked to: La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)
Albin createdFor La Cage aux Folles (1983 Broadway musical)
linked to: La Cage aux Folles (original Broadway production)