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birdcage
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Play
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Play: La Cage aux Folles (1978)
Movie: The Birdcage (1996)
Premise
movie:
"Armand and Albert have a home life many would envy. They share a long-term committed relationship encompassing their lives and careers and have together raised Armand's son Val. When Val announces his engagement to the daughter of an ultra-conservative U.S. Senator, what choice is there but to accept his decision with love? Meanwhile, Senator Keeley and his wife are watching his right-wing constituency evaporate with the scandalous demise of his closest political ally. A visit to their future in-laws could be just the thing to take the public's focus off the Keeley's messy predicament. With the impending visit of his
fiancée's rigid family, Val asks his father to straighten up the apartment just a bit. All is entails is the removal of Armand's art collection, furnishings, clothes, job... and Albert."
from:
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=
1800255845
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Premise
play:
"Albin and Georges are lovers as well as popular female impersonators starring in the drag queen show, Les Cagelles. Problems arise when Georges' twenty-five year old son, Jean-Michel, a result from a brief encounter years back, announces that he is engaged to Anne Dindon, the daughter of a well-known homophobic politician, Edouard Dindon. Anne's parents want to come and meet Jean-Michel's mother and father. Little do they know that Albin, a man, has essentially been Jean-Michel's mother figure his whole life. Jean-Michel wants to keep Albin away from the Dindon's but Albin is hurt and insists on making an appearance. In the end, due to a little blackmail, the Dindon's are forced to accept Jean-Michel into their family."
from:
http://www.stageagent.com/cb/info.pl/ti/la_cage_aux_folles
Note: Because we couldn't find a synopsis for the original play we took the synopsis from the musical by
JerryHerman.
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Author:
"Particularly popular in his native France, but also well known in Europe, actor, screenwriter, and playwright Jean Poiret typically played sardonic fellows and police inspectors, notably in Claude Chabrol's Poulet au Vinaigre (1985) and in Francoise Truffaut's Dernier Metro (1980). As an actor, he made his feature debut in Cette Sacrée Gamine (1956) and as a writer, Poiret made a splash with the play and screenplay for the smash hit La Cage aux Folles (1978). He subsequently helped write screenplays for two sequels. Poiret produced one film, Gueule de L'autre (1979). Just before he died of heart failure in March 1992, he penned and directed the Cesar-nominated comedy La
Zebre."
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Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Robin Williams (Armand Goldman), Gene Hackman (Sen. Keeley), Nathan Lane (Albert Goldman/ Starina), Diane Wiest (Louise Keeley), Dan Futterman (Val Goldman), Calista Flockhart (Barbara 'Barbie'
Keeley).
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