La Cage aux Folles

In the organizer's words:

I am what I am! throws the dazzling drag queen Zaza into the spotlight and not only manifests her own identity: since the musical La Cage aux Folles conquered the stages in the early 1980s, the solo of the great travesty diva has become a self-empowering anthem for the queer movement worldwide.

The successful musical by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein made big waves and has hardly lost any of its topicality to this day: Georges runs the frivolous travesty club La Cage aux Folles ( A Cage Full of Fools), where his partner Albin is the daily star of the evening as Zaza. However, Jean-Michel, the artist couple's son, falls in love with the daughter of an arch-conservative politician who has declared the local drag scene a target. At the in-laws' get-to-know-each-other dinner, the extent to which their own identity has to take a back seat for the sake of their family's happiness is at stake.

Musical
Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Based on the play "A Cage Full of Fools" by Jean Poiret

South African director Matthew Wild transforms the Kassel Staatstheater into a wicked nightclub in the south of France, where the cage bars of social normality are shattered with dancing ease. The colorful ensemble of the "Cagelles" presents itself in its interludes as a collection of bizarre personalities, but the bourgeois bourgeoisie also rumble along in a similarly grotesque manner. Everything is packaged in a good-humored way in the classic Broadway soundtrack between glittering show and the greatest emotions: "Bonsoir, bonsoir, Messier-dame! Only champagne from now until the finale!"