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When "The jail Aux Folles," the melodious, tourist-friendly music that includes dance queens coax, opened on Broadway for the first time in 1983, New York Times theater critic Explicit Rich has called "schmaltziest, the oldest major melodious Broadway seen since "Annie". "He has won six Tony Awards including pre-eminent music, lasted four years on Broadway and spawned a disco hit sung by Gloria Gaynor" I Am What I Am, "which became something of a gay anthem.
When he was taken to Broadway about five and a half years ago, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley theater echoed some criticisms of its predecessor and added that the new production was "alternately crude and lurid." That all he lasted only six months on Broadway and won two Tony Awards.
Now, another production of "The In Aux Folles" hit Broadway, it being promoted as an import from the Menier factory in London, although most of the distribution is newly hired to Broadway, including a his two son, Kelsey Grammar.If there were wise in the world, this "La Cage", thanks to a special act of physical theater, one should get up and Tony last three months.
Source: The Faster Times