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La Cage aux Folles Reviews
MetroWeekly- Recommended
"... Low energy is never an issue, though, for Les Cagelles, the showgirls who support Zaza at the nightclub. Director Terry Johnson and choreographer Lynne Page have re-imagined them as a less lavish group than in productions past. Smaller, too; there are only six of them now -- Matt Antcil, Logan Keslar, Donald C. Shorter Jr., Mark Roland, Terry Lavell and Trevor Downey -- instead of the dozen used on Broadway in the '80s and in the 2004 revival. Regardless of their wigs and heels, these are muscular, masculine dancer-singers who deliver amazingly acrobatic performances that are hardly a drag."
Washingtonian- Highly Recommended
"... In an election season where we’re constantly being told how wrong, shameful, and threatening to the moral fabric of America homosexuality is, it’s utterly cheering to see in La Cage aux Folles what might be the most endearing non-nuclear family in popular culture (at least until Modern Family premiered). Given that La Cage debuted on Broadway in 1983, it might be less groundbreaking now than it once was, but, as Terry Johnson’s production proves, it’s no less inspiring."
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
"... La Cage Aux Folles, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, is the only musical that has had two revival productions that each won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical (both in 2005, and most recently in 2010), while the original production also won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1984. The latest revival originated at the famed Menier Chocolate Factory in London and had great success in London’s West End and on Broadway. While it is a more scaled-down version (e.g., smaller orchestra and set), the current revival production directed with utmost precision by Tony Award-winning Terry Johnson does not feel lacking in glitz and glamour, while it manages to achieve a higher level of intimacy."
DCTheatreScene- Highly Recommended
You just can’t get enough of Mr. Sieber as the demanding, theatrical, but absurdly cuddly Albin. He shows us all the sides of the character—maternal, matronly, melodramatic, but also Mr. Sieber gives Albin a thunderous, Mama Rose-like moment in his shattering, triumphant delivery of the show’s signature anthem “I Am What I Am.”