With La Cage aux Folles hitting the stage for its first preview this Saturday, November 26, we sat down with one of the stars to talk about the show. Greg Armstrong Morris will be portraying Albin this Holiday Season at the Playhouse.

You have mentioned in other interviews that this is a role of a lifetime.  Tell me why.
The show premiered when I was in theatre school. So the show itself had a huge impact on what I was doing at the time.  It’s a show about a gay man maintaining his integrity in the midst of being asked to make great sacrifices for his family.  I think any gay man, whether they are an actor or not, would certainly identify with this show. It’s a story that we all know so well.  The song from the show that’s best known, “I Am What I Am”, became a gay pride anthem for an entire generation.  It struck a chord.  Gloria Gaynor turned it into a huge hit and it played all the time.  What it says is very simple and very powerful, and I relate to it directly as a gay man playing a gay character, but I think it’s certainly something that everyone also relates to.

How are rehearsals going?
They are great.  It’s been really fun, nothing but fun.  Everybody here is hard working and very professional and wants to get along really well.  They are all just helping each other wherever they can and carrying their load. Nobody has it easy in this show.  There are people who aren’t necessarily onstage the whole time but when they are onstage they’re working really, really hard, and when they’re offstage they’re doing some sort of crazy costume change.  Everybody has a big part in this show.

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