La cage aux folles - a review

For quite a while ago we saw La cage aux folles together with the circus club at Norrbottensteatern.

Even though this was supposed to be a mnusical, it hade borrowed some elements from circus, when they had more of these "singing acts" where we where supposed to get glipes from what the audience at the club where the story is set see.

I remember it almost like a varity show with different acts. I was supprised that even though La Cage aux Folles was first written in the 80ths, the subject and the musical as a whole still was up to date today, dealing with subjects as cross dressing, core family or not, expectation from the society and HBQ realted questions.

My two favourite thing that I am not sure is included att all La Cage aux Folles was the fact that thwy at the end where wearing the Kiruna Hockey match sweater in all the rainbow colors (since Kiruna Hockey is the first HBTQ certified hockey team in Sweden) and that the parents dressed up as the Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst, with her dress and beard.

There where many beautiful costumes, good dance acts and singing acts.

At several points, one of the dads say "The circus horse gets ready again" in a sad voice as he is about to get changed to enter the stage. This still points out that circus still have a very low status in society.

As a whole, I really enjoyed La Cage aux Folles.