Kinky Boots (musical)
Kinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein. It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013, following previews that began on March 3, 2013. It won a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, includingBest Musical, Best Actor for Billy Porter and Best Score for Lauper. In 2016, it won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. Kinky Boots will end its Broadway run on April 7, 2019.
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Kinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein. It made its Broadway debut at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013, following previews that began on March 3, 2013. In 2016, it won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. The musical’s cast album premiered at number one on the Billboard Cast Albums Chart and number fifty-one on the billboard 200 chart. Kinky Boots will end its Broadway run on April 7, 2019. It is based on the 2005 British film of the same name, which was in turn inspired by a 1999 episode of the BBC2 documentary television series Trouble at the Top. It followed the true story of Steve Pateman, who was struggling to save his family-run shoe factory from closure and decided to produce fetish footwear for men, under the brand name ‘Divine Footwear’ The musical is the main difference between the film and the musical is that the film is about the saving of a factory, while the musical focuses on a line of high-heeled boots, which include drag queens as they pass along the assembly line. It won a season-high 13 nominations and 6 Tony wins, includingBest Musical, Best Actor for Billy Porter and Best Score for Lauper. It was Lauper’s first outing as a Broadway songwriter, making her the first woman to win alone in that category. The show also won a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Musical, along with an Emmy and many other awards for her songs and performances on stage and in the movies.
It also won an Olivier Award for Best New musical for its West End performance of The Threepenny Opera in 2006. It went on to win a Tony for Best Musical for the West End production of The Greatest Showman in 2008. It has also won two Olivier Awards for Best Director and Best Choreography for Jerry Mitchell and Best Direction of a Musical. It had a US tour in 2014 and a US Tour in 2014-15, and a UK tour in 2015-16, and an Australian tour in 2016-17, as well as a European tour in 2017 and 2018. It opened in Chicago in October 2012, with both direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and starring Stark Sands and Billy Porter as Charlie and Lola, respectively. In June 2010, Lauper joined the creative team in June 2010 to write the songs for the musical. She said that she identifies with both drag queens and drag queens, and that she had both worked with Fierstein and Lauper on previous works about drag queens: La Folles aux Cage aux Song Trilogy and Torch Song Trilogy. She also said that the musical’s main difference is that it is about a change in focus between a factory and a drag queen, which is the core of the story. In the show, Charlie and lola discover that they are not so different after all. The original production of Kinky boots premiered at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago on October 31, 2012.
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