Theatre News and Reviews

The Broadway revival of “La Cage aux Folles” is in an open-ended run at the Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway. Ticket and performance information: (212) 307-4100 or ticketmaster.com.

If any singer can wrap his voice around a glorious Jerry Herman melody, it’s Robert Goulet, one of the last booming baritones of Broadway’s Golden Age.

Goulet gets a chance to do just that in the revival of “La Cage aux Folles,” having replaced Daniel Davis as one half of a gay couple who run a saucy drag nightclub on the French Riviera.

And if the star -at age 71 - isn’t as physically spry or as verbally nimble as he was in the glory days of “Camelot,” which was his Broadway debut 45 years ago, no matter.

There’s an affable, self-deprecating charm to Goulet’s performance that gives this production of “La Cage” a gentle, heartwarming lift. You actually believe he is Georges, the well-meaning father of a heterosexual son who wants Dad to hide his gay relationship so the offspring can impress his future in-laws.

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