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[sanura]

So who knows anything about the stage show La Cage aux Folles? I just watched the Birdcage, and, while brilliant, it is not even nearly the same. I think I've been cast as a girl in the drag show, but I don't really know. My role title is Jacqueline/Cagelle. I guess today was my last ice cream day. I'm probably going to have to dance. This is a milestone.

Meanwhile, I have the first (slightly) incapacitating foot injury I've had in awhile. I was wearing shoes (don't you just know it) on the way back from the RMC, where you have to wear shoes, so I wasn't looking where I was going. There were some loose boards where they're doing construction on the sidewalk, and I stepped on a nail and it went through the shoe. It would be the one time I was wearing shoes and walking on the sidewalk instead of the grass.

That's the Ryan news update for now. Let me know if you have any info on La Cage.

Comments

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

Is it at all similar to the French film La Cage aux Folles? I've seen that.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

I would imagine so. I don't know how similar, but the story is bound to be closer. Is the film a musical?

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

No, but here is the story in the film:

A son of the gay owner of a transvestite show club (Le Cage aux Folles) falls in love with a girl while of at college and decides to marry her. However, the girl happens to be the daughter of an important rich family in France's moral conservative party. This comes right after the conservative French president dies of a heart attack while with an underage prostitute, which could easily harm the family's political reputation, and so of course the daughter lies to her family about her new fiance's background - she says that his father is a conservative diplomat. The son asks his father and his "auntie" - transvestite Zaza - to play along when his girlfriend's family visits. Zaza is appalled at the prospect that his lover's son would run away from the family for a woman, and makes quite a stink about the whole thing - the rest is brilliantly silly comedy that arrises from the mishaps of the visit.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

That's the story in The Birdcage, too, except they set it in America with the girl's family being a right-wing senator. However, none of the names are the same, so I don't know who I am.

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

Jacqueline (Mezzo): The hostess of the restaurant Chez Jacqueline and dear friend of Albin. (Cameo)

Les Cagelles: Performers in the drag show.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

Thank you terribly. Better a cameo than just a Cagelle.