Renato ugo tognazzi and albin michel serrault are happy that their son, laurent remi laurent, is getting married. Your isp can monitor you, unless you use a zero log. The original production won five tony awards including best musical and best score, and featured george hearn, gene barry, jay garner, merle louise and john weiner. Georges and albion are two middleaged homosexuals whose committed relationship plays out against the background of a st. With michel serrault, ugo tognazzi, marcel bozzuffi, michel galabru. Staring michel serrault, ugo tognazzi, claire maurier and luisa maneri. English dubbed versions are not near as funny and authentic as the original version. Renato ugo tognazzi owns a popular nightclub and is the longtime lover of zaza michel serrault, a female impersonator who is the clubs main attraction. Albin michel serrault enters the room in drag and introduces himself as the mother.
Official video content provided by mgm home entertainment or one of its authorized agents. Its about the gay owner of a scandalous nightclub in st. Two of europes most virile male stars, michel serrault and ugo tognazzi, portray two very flamboyant, aging gay gentlemen. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership. In new york, the movie ran for well over a year at the 68th street playhouse cinema. It opened august 21, 1983 at the palace theatre, where it.
Make sure you get this movie in french with english subtitles. 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. The comedy that comes out of the closet two gay men living in st. Enter bay area musicals, the new organization built by theatre veterans to celebrate the rich world of musicals. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. On an angle just take a deep breath, a sip of champagne open your eyes and what do you see. 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. To ensure that the marriage goes off without a hitch, albin uses his skills as a drag performer to play mom for a meeting. It opened august 21, 1983 at the palace theatre, where it played for over four years and 1,761. The couple raised georges son the product of a youthful onenight.
Before august of 2014, there was only one thing missing from san franciscos bustling theatre scene. 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. The gay couple then hide out in renatos native italy, but find little peace there. Pelicula dirigida por edouard molinaro con ugo tognazzi. Critically acclaimed comedy about a gay male couple preparing for a visit by ones son, his fiancee and her father, the morals commissioner of france.
Each season, the company presents both classic and new works that may include tonywinning pieces and world premieres. 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. Print instantly, or sync to our free pc, web and mobile apps. Feb 23, 2014 official video content provided by mgm home entertainment or one of its authorized agents. Tropez, his transvestite lover, and how the owner reacts after his son returns home one day and announces hes going to marry. But it can get away with this because of the way it is pitched as a farce, unlike, say, outrageous.
Tropez night club named cage aux folle george runs it and albion is its. To ensure that the marriage goes off without a hitch, albin uses his skills as a drag performer to play mom for a meeting with the inlaws. Unfortunately, the brides father michel galabru is a diehard conservative and renato and albin are rather conspicuously gay. It is cowritten and directed by edouard molinaro and stars ugo tognazzi and michel serrault. Tropez nightclub where the chief attraction is a drag act performed by his lover, serrault. Tropez dragshow nightclub owned by georges and headlined by his longtime love albin. The gay couple then hide out in renatos native italy, but find little peace there with their frequent. 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. British actorsinger douglas hodge was allowed to repeat his performance as albinzaza, the female impersonator, while the part of his more butch life partner georges was given to american tv star kelsey grammer. Whichever version you see subtitled or original, it will be a viewing. Like the play upon which it is based, the film tells the story of a gay. One of the most successful comedies of all time, this best foreign film award winner inspired the birdcage and stars michel serrault and ugo tognazzi as two partners torn between crossdressing and chaos. You probably know the story from the mike nichols nonmusical film, the birdcage.
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