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La Cage aux Folles () is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman.

Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic partner and star attraction, and the farcical adventures that ensue when Georges's son, Jean-Michel, brings home his fiancée's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

La cage aux folles literally means " the cage of mad women ".

However folles is also a slang term for effeminate homosexuals ( queens ).