When she last appeared on Broadway five years ago, she was merely a megastar, Dame Edna condescendingly tells her audience now she is "a glittering gigastar." In this singing, dancing shrine to herself, she proves it by brilliantly exploiting our culture's masochistic obsession with the rich and famous (2:30). As her exhaustingly funny new show makes clear, that growth process hasn't stopped. Rather like the plant in "The Little Shop of Horrors," the initially blowsy Edna kept becoming larger, glitzier and hungrier as she fed on the adulation of fans over the years. *+ 'DAME EDNA: BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!' It was nearly a half century ago that Edna Everage (damehood still awaited her) was invented by a young Australian drama student named Barry Humphries, whose body the mauve-haired entertainer continues to take over for public appearances.
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Each one emerges as a saucy individual, and as a team they have been choreographed by Jerry Mitchell with a feisty sense of humor and an athletic verve that should make Arnold Schwarzenegger think twice about using girly men as a pejorative term (2:30). What makes "La Cage" worth visiting for people whose diet does not include canned corn and packaged sugar is the plumed and spangled all-male ensemble of dancers. But Jerry Zaks's production often gives the impression of merely going through the motions, amiably but robotically, of its gag-laden, sentimental plot. Tropez has two bright stars in Daniel Davis (as the manly part of the couple) and the wonderful but slightly miscast Gary Beach (as the womanly one). This story of a gay couple who run a nightclub in St. 'LA CAGE AUX FOLLES.' This alternately pallid and garish revival of the 1983 musical, with songs by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein, comes to life only when its cross-dressing chorus line takes over.
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Full reviews of current shows, additional listings, showtimes and tickets: /theater. ++ means discounted tickets were available at the TKTS booth for last Friday night.
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+ means discounted tickets were available at the Theater Development Fund's TKTS booth for performances last Friday and Saturday nights. Approximate running times are in parentheses. A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy Broadway and Off Broadway shows this weekend.