La Cage Aux Folles

*La Cage Aux Folles* is the Broadway musical with songs by Jerry Herman and a script by Harvey Fierstein, centered on a longtime same-sex couple whose nightclub life collides with their son’s conservative in-laws. Staged as a live event at New York City Center, it leans into dance as both performance language and social camouflage. First arriving on Broadway in 1983, it helped bring gay domestic life into the commercial mainstream with unusual directness for its moment. Its most lasting claim is how plainly it treats family as the subject, not the controversy.