The run closed November 15, 1987
- Opened
- August 21, 1983
- Closed
- November 15, 1987
- Performances
- 1,761
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 6th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of La Cage aux Folles 2 more that season
| 2004 | Marquis Theatre Revival · Jerry Zaks | 229 perf. |
| 2010 | Longacre Theatre Revival · Terry Johnson | 433 perf. |
Who was in it54 named
Brian Kelly
Sydney Anderson
David Cahn
Dennis Callahan
Betsy Craig
Frank di Pasquale
John Dolf
David Engel
David Evans
Linda Haberman
Eric Lamp
Jack Neubeck
Dan O Grady
Deborah Phelan
Jay Pierce
Marie Santell
David Scala
Sam Singhaus
Mark Waldrop
Ken Ward
Steeve Arlen
Bill Burns
Darcy Pulliam
Keith Allen
Mace Barrett
Robert Brubach
Darrell Carey
Pamela Cecil
Lynn Faro
Rex Hays
K Craig Innes
Suzanne Ishee
David Jackson
Shannon Lee Jones
David Klatt
Juliette Kurth
Eric Underwood
Kyle Whyte
16 of these 54 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Arthur Laurents
- Choreographer
- Scott Salmon
- Producer
- Allan Carr
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 6 from 9 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
- By 1985, ticket prices for most musicals were up to $45.00, with La Cage getting $47.50. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 12
- La Cage aux Folles was the first musical to charge $47.50 for orchestra seats. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 260
- Zaks, Jerry Anything Goes Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Guys and Dolls La Cage aux Folles Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- Mitchell, Jerry Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Full Monty, The Gypsy Hairspray La Cage aux Folles Legally Blonde Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 390
- La Cage aux Folles $5 million. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 22
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for La Cage aux Folles at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.