When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway’s “Shucked,” he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been known to everyone in his straight-laced, corn-fed community. But in “La Cage aux Folles,” now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse, taking on the lead role of the drag performer Albin, he quite defiantly is who he is — at least until the farcical second act has him comically pretending to be a straight man, then a straight woman, in an attempted act of familial love. High jinx ensue, as they say… but so do pathos and anger,
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