In 1973, Jean Poiret’s French farce La Cage aux Folles premiered in Paris, where it became a huge hit. The St. Tropez romp was about a gay nightclub owner who must pass his drag-queen partner off as a proper housewife for the duration of one agonizing dinner. Five years later, Édouard Molinaro turned the play into a film that scandalized some and delighted most. In 1983, Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman took the next step and turned La Cage aux Folles into a musical—Broadway’s most sequined Tony winner of 1983! Now Robert O’Hara, the director known for Slave Play, reimagines the musical with an all-Black cast for New York City Center’s Encores! series. Billy Porter is the magnificent Albin and Wayne Brady is his long-suffering Georges. The original 1983 orchestrations, unheard since the first Broadway run, are back. —Jeanne Malle