La Cage Aux Folles (musical)

La Cage Aux Folles is a Musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French Play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez night clip featuring drag entertainment and Albin, his romantic partner and star attraction and the Farcical adventures that ensue when Georges's son, Jean-Michel, brings home his fiancée's ultra-conservative parents to meet them. La Cage Aux Folles literally means "The Cage of Mad Women". However Folles is also a slang term for effeminate homosexuals (Queens).

The Original 1983 Broadway production recieved nine nominations for Tony Awards and won six, including Tony Award for Best Musical, Tony Award for Best Original Score and Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.