Last season, Lee Roy Reams was a sensation at Boca Raton’s Wick Theatre, playing drag queen Zaza in La Cage aux Folles. So it was probably inevitable that managing executive producer Marilynn Wick would say to him, “I’ve got to have you back next year. What do you want to do?” Reams said, “I want to do ‘Hello, Dolly!,’” a show that he had directed numerous times before. … [Read more...]
Reams, Charles make Wick’s ‘La Cage’ well worth return visit
Only an incurable optimist like Jerry Herman would write that “The best of times is now,” as he did in his enduring hit musical, La Cage aux Folles. He wrote it in 1983, in the midst of the Reagan administration, as the AIDS epidemic was on the increase. That’s how much of an optimist he is. The song appears in the first gay-themed musical to hit Broadway, a number that … [Read more...]