It is the only musical that won best musical it its original run, but then both the 2004 and 2010 revivals also won tonys for best revival. The folks at the playhouse are super friendly and helpful. The comedy that comes out of the closet two gay men living in st. Had pretheater dinner at blue hound cookery across the street, also highly recommended.
The gay couple then hide out in renatos native italy, but find little peace there. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. It is cowritten and directed by edouard molinaro and stars ugo tognazzi and michel serrault. With michel serrault, ugo tognazzi, marcel bozzuffi, michel galabru. Zaza michel serrault thinks that he is no longer attractive to renato ugo tognazzi, and to make him jealous sets out to the local caf in magnificent dragwhere she is promptly picked up by a spy who is fleeing from enemy agents. With michel serrault, ugo tognazzi, antonella interlenghi, saverio vallone. Nightclub owner renato and his transvestite companionlover albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when albin unwittingly gets his hands on a roll of stolen microfilm.
Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. We loved the history of the playhouse, the seating was comfortable we sat tin the balcony. This time they inadvertently become involved in the world of international espionage when circumstances connect them to a number of dead bodies and some missing microfilm. Based on the 1973 french play of the same name by jean poiret, it tells the story of a gay couple, georges, the manager of a sainttropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and albin, his. Great production with a very talented cast most with extensive credits. But the catch is albin must marry a woman and produce an heir within a year or the whole inheritance will be. Michel serrault and ugo tognazzi return in this zany espionage caper that has the two targeted by murderous enemy agents in an unforgettable crosscountry journey.
But albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancee and her parents come for dinner. Of course theres a concept to justify the smallness of the proceedings. Zaza michel serrault thinks that he is no longer attractive to renato ugo tognazzi, and to make him jealous sets out to the local caf. Its about the gay owner of a scandalous nightclub in st. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Theater holds less than 300 so every seat is close to the performance.
After twenty years of unwedded bliss georges and albin, two men partnered for betterorworse get a bit of both when georges son fathered during a onenight fling announces. When the frenchitalian film adaptation of jean poirets play became a big box office hit in the late 70s, it was a conventional farce with a typically gallic twist, the old sonof. In a move to make his partner, renato, jealous, the flamboyant albin waits in a local cafe dressed as a woman hoping to be picked up. There are plenty of action scenes throughout the comedy that will make you truly laugh.