La Cage aux Folles (New York City Center Encores!)
Few musicals occupy quite the same place in the American theatrical imagination as "La Cage aux Folles." Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s 1983 landmark arrived disguised as an old-fashioned musical comedy—complete with farce, mistaken identities, and melodies that seemed to float effortlessly into the ear—yet it carried within it a quietly radical vision of queer domesticity. More than four decades later, th…