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 Kelsey Grammer, Jerry Herman, Douglas Hodge, Christine Andreas and Les Cagelles |
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3 Tony Awards Best Revival of a Musical Best Actor - Douglas Hodge Best Director - Terry Johnson |
Drama Desk Awards Best Musical Revival Best Actor - Douglas Hodge Costume Design - Matthew Wright
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Outer Circle Critics Awards Best Musical Revival Best Actor - Douglas Hodge Best Director - Terry Johnson Costume Design - Matthew Wright |
Drama League Award Best Musical Revival
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Christine Andreas is as gorgeous and glorious-voiced as ever! -USA Today Christine Andreas ‘dazzles’ as the gorgeous restaurant owner Jacqueline. Andreas gets to show off her beautiful voice in ‘The Best of Times,’ which is the best number in the show! -AfterElton.com Christine Andreas as the scheming restaurateur, Jacqueline, is stylish and saucy. -Backstage The supporting actors are deluxe … including … the silver-voiced Christine Andreas as Jacqueline, a media-hungry restaurateur. -Time Out Magazine |
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Extras.... ** Watch the video clip of Highlights from La Cage Aux Folles. ** Watch the video clip from Broadway World. ** Watch the video clip from The Today Show. Visit the La Cage Aux Folles website for tickets, videos, photos and more! |
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Christine's thoughts... Sometime around Thanksgiving of 2009, my agent Tim Sage of Paradigm, called and gave me the wonderful news that I had been asked to play the role of Jacqueline in the new revival of Jerry Herman’s and Harvey Fierstein’s classic musical LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Kelsey Grammer had been cast as Georges and Douglas Hodge, already the Olivier Winner for his portrayal of the drag queen Albin in the original production on London’s West End, would be joining the company on Broadway to recreate the role. The thought of taking some time off from the road……think 55 weeks of THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA a few years ago and our annual worldwide concert tours…...was truly appealing (Mama was getting just a ‘little’ road weary…) and even though I heard the White Way ‘chatter’....that it was ‘too soon’ to bring LA CAGE back to Broadway, after all, it had been revived only four years prior and not all that well received, those noises did little to discourage my anticipation and excitement to be back on the boards. 
We began rehearsals on the first of March, but due to a previous concert commitment I could not be present until March 3. From the moment I walked into rehearsal…to the ‘mock’ cheers of my already hard at work company…till Opening Night, April 18th, was very much like a wild roller coaster ride of a dream… tremendous fun, exhilarating, and really fast! When the ride was over, we woke up to the most glorious and rapturous press notices all across the board. Love letters to Douglas, Kelsey, Terry Johnson (the director), all the creatives and the entire cast abounded in the press. However, one theme rang clear in almost every notice…and that was a huge and warm ‘welcome’ for this amazing new take on a show that had it’s premiere in 1983. I’m fond of saying that this LA CAGE is more than a revival….it is a revelation. In 1983 with the Aids epidemic overwhelming and claiming so many lives, audiences may not have been ready to fully embrace the simple message of this show…that life is so much richer when you accept love regardless of age, gender and preference. However, now in 2010, audiences felt no need to wait for critical approval as they were standing and cheering from first preview……and they have not stopped yet! As for Jacqueline….well, I embrace her ‘joie de vie’ every night; I sing the music of a Broadway legend, and one of the nicest men in our business; I get to act with the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Actor in a Musical in all my scenes; and I get to dance and even do the ‘bump’ with one of America’s most beloved stars – ‘Frasier’ himself. Not to mention that I have the time to get to know and enjoy a hard-working and gifted company…the ‘notorious & dangerous’ Cagelles….the unique and riotous Robin De Jesus…the cantankerous and quirky Fred Applegate and in particular my two dressing room companions…the exotic, fantastical Veanne Cox and our gorgeous Caitlin Mundth. Who could ask for anything more? LA CAGE AUX FOLLES won the 2010 Tony for Best Musical Revival. It also won the Drama Desk, The Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle Award in the same category…as well as lots of other individual honors. You can look it up…but better yet…you can come to the Longacre Theater Box Office and buy yourself a pair of seats to one of the most uplifting, poignant and outrageously fun musicals to hit Broadway in recent memory. I guarantee it! See you at LA CAGE AUX FOLLES!
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